{"product_id":"islamic-education-in-africa-writing-boards-and-blackboards-paperback-softback-9780253023025","title":"Islamic Education in Africa; Writing Boards and Blackboards (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253023025","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIslamic Education in Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWriting Boards and Blackboards\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Launay (Edited by), Cheikh Anta Babou (Contributions by), Liazzat J. K. Bonate (Contributions by), Tal Tamari (Contributions by), Corinne Fortier (Contributions by), Muhammad Sani Umar (Contributions by), Roman Loimeier (Contributions by), Ashley E. Leinweber (Contributions by), Ousseina D. Alidou (Contributions by), Rudiger Seesemann (Contributions by), Abdoulaye Sounaye (Contributions by), Rudolph Ware (Contributions by), Benjamin F. Soares (Contributions by), Noah Butler (Contributions by), Alexander Thurston (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253023025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e326 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.431 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edited volume is a welcome contribution to debates on Islamic schooling in Africa both past and present, and will be of interest to scholars working on 'indigenous' perspectives and 'alternative' types of education more broadly. It is relevant to anyone working on policy, educational decisionmaking and youth experiences of schooling in African countries with Muslim populations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e (Compare) \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslamic Education in Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e makes a significant contribution not only to our understandings of Islam in Africa but also to the broader study of how Islam is learned and woven into the fabric of society. By showing in meticulous detail the enduring and unwavering commitments of African Muslims to Islamic education while providing persuasive explanations about how and why knowledge transmission has continued to be the central bone of contention that divides them, it is a landmark in the anthropology of education.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Ethnologist) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a very rich collection of articles that covers diverse perspectives on Islamic Education in Africa, written by some of the top-of-the-range experts in their respective fields. \u003c\/p\u003e (Muslim World Book Review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaunay's edited volume is an excellent and timely contribution to the literature, likely to become a major reference on Islamic education on the African continent. Everyone with an interest in the topic should read it!\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Religion in Africa) \u003cp\u003eHighly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eIslamic Education in Africa is a thoughtful reection that challenges Eurocentric knowledge on Islamic educational systems, harnessing a debate on alternative future landscapes for education and schooling in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e - Marta Scaglioni (AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW) \u003cp\u003eAs the debate on the decolonization of education in Africa gains increasing importance in academia, Islamic Education in Africa is a thoughtful reflection that challenges Eurocentric knowledge on Islamic educational systems, harnessing a debate on alternative future landscapes for education and schooling in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e - Marta Scaglioni (African Studies Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting boards and blackboards are emblematic of two radically different styles of education in Islam. The essays in this lively volume address various aspects of the expanding and evolving range of educational choices available to Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors from the United States, Europe, and Africa evaluate classical Islamic education in Africa from colonial times to the present, including changes in pedagogical methods—from sitting to standing, from individual to collective learning, from recitation to analysis. Also discussed are the differences between British, French, Belgian, and Portuguese education in Africa and between mission schools and Qur'anic schools; changes to the classical Islamic curriculum; the changing intent of Islamic education; the modernization of pedagogical styles and tools; hybrid forms of religious and secular education; the inclusion of women in Qur'anic schools; and the changing notion of what it means to be an educated person in Africa. A new view of the role of Islamic education, especially its politics and controversies in today's age of terrorism, emerges from this broadly comparative volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003eRobert Launay \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Classical Paradigm\u003cbr\u003e2. Styles of Islamic Education: Perspectives from Mali, Guinea, and The Gambia\u003cbr\u003eTal Tamari \u003cbr\u003e3 Orality and the Transmission of Qur'anic knowledge in Mauritania\u003cbr\u003eCorinne Fortier \u003cbr\u003e4. Islamic Education and the Intellectual Pedigree of Al-Hajj Umar Falke\u003cbr\u003eMuhammad Sani Umar \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutional Transformations\u003cbr\u003e5. Divergent Patterns of Islamic Education in Northern Mozambique: Qur'anic Schools in Angoche\u003cbr\u003eLiazzate Bonate \u003cbr\u003e6. Colonial Control, Nigerian Agency, Arab Outreach, and Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1966\u003cbr\u003eAlex Thurston \u003cbr\u003e7. Muslim scholars, Organic Intellectuals and the Development of Islamic Education in Zanzibar in the 20th Century \u003cbr\u003eRoman Loimeier\u003cbr\u003e8. The New Muslim Public School in the Democratic Republic of Congo\u003cbr\u003eAshley Leinweber \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eInnovations and Experiments \u003cbr\u003e9. The al-Azhar School Network: A Murid Experiment in Islamic Modernism\u003cbr\u003eCheikh Anta Babou \u003cbr\u003e10. Mwalim Bi Swafiya Muhashamy-Said: A Pioneer of the Integrated (Madrasa) Curriculum in Kenya and Beyond\u003cbr\u003eOusseina D. Alidou \u003cbr\u003e11. Changes in Islamic Knowledge Practices in 20th-Century Kenya\u003cbr\u003eRüdiger Seesemann \u003cbr\u003e12. Walking to the Makaranta: Production, Circulation, and Transmission of Islamic Learning in Urban Niger\u003cbr\u003eAbdoulaye Sounaye \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlural Possibilities? \u003cbr\u003e13. How (Not) to Read the Quran? Logics of Islamic Education in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire\u003cbr\u003eRobert Launay and Rudolph T. Ware III \u003cbr\u003e14. New Muslim Public Figures in West Africa\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin F. Soares \u003cbr\u003e15. Collapsed Pluralities: Islamic Education, Learning, and Creativity in Niger\u003cbr\u003eNoah Butler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523984126232,"sku":"9780253023025","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/islamic-education-in-africa-writing-boards-and-blackboards-paperback-softback-9780253023025","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}