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Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina and al-Mustafa
Masooda Bano
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Description for Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina and al-Mustafa
Paperback. Through case studies of academic institutions the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities. Editor(s): Bano, Masooda; Sakurai, Keiko. Series: Exploring Muslim Contexts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HRH; HRHP; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This empirically grounded study challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities.
This empirically grounded study challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities.
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Exploring Muslim Contexts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474424165
SKU
V9781474424165
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About Masooda Bano
Masooda Bano is Associate Professor and University Research Lecturer at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Keiko Sakurai is Professor at the Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Reviews for Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina and al-Mustafa
Based on a close study of three leading Muslim universities, their structures, ideational orientations, syllabi and alumni and their national and global outreach, this three-part volume allows readers to go beyond a rather singular focus on madrasah education. Benefiting from some fieldwork and by utilising institutional publications, this study of al-Madinah University (IUM) in Saudi Arabia, Qorn's al-Mustafa (MIU) and ... Read more