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Schooling Muslims in Natal
. Ed(S): Vahed, Goolam H.; Waetjen, Thembisa
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Paperback. The history of Muslim education in the east coast region of South Africa is the story of ongoing struggles by an immigrant religious minority under successive, exclusionary forms of state. Editor(s): Vahed, Goolam H.; Waetjen, Thembisa. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFF; JFSR2; JNF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 41. Weight in Grams: 720.
The history of Muslim education in the east coast region of South Africa is the story of ongoing struggles by an immigrant religious minority under successive, exclusionary forms of state. Schooling Muslims in Natal traces the labours and fortunes of a set of progressive idealists who, mobilising merchant capital, transoceanic networks and informal political influence, established the Orient Islamic Educational Institute in 1943 to found schools and promote a secular curriculum that could be integrated with Islamic teaching. Through the story of their Durban flagship project – the Orient Islamic School – the book provides a fascinating account of the ... Read more
The history of Muslim education in the east coast region of South Africa is the story of ongoing struggles by an immigrant religious minority under successive, exclusionary forms of state. Schooling Muslims in Natal traces the labours and fortunes of a set of progressive idealists who, mobilising merchant capital, transoceanic networks and informal political influence, established the Orient Islamic Educational Institute in 1943 to found schools and promote a secular curriculum that could be integrated with Islamic teaching. Through the story of their Durban flagship project – the Orient Islamic School – the book provides a fascinating account of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press South Africa
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
ISBN
9781869142926
SKU
V9781869142926
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About . Ed(S): Vahed, Goolam H.; Waetjen, Thembisa
Goolam Vahed is an Associate Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal who writes on histories of migration, ethnicity and identity formation among Indian South Africans. Thembisa Waetjen is a Research Associate at the Durban University of Technology and writes on gender, politics and public culture in twentieth-century South Africa.
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