About the Book The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools. For more information: https://goo.gl/zEkUEc
About the Book This project looks at the work of the faculty in Indonesia's National Islamic Institutes to address, respond, and prevent the success of radical Islamic discourse and institution of Shari'a law in the school system. Review : "Across the Muslim world, Islamic higher education is today a site for both the guardianship and the refiguring of religious knowledge and identity.…
About the Book This volume explores the decision by the government of Egypt in the 1970s to constitutionalize Islamic shari?a and discusses its impact on Egypt’s constitutional jurisprudence. The author, who is trained in Islamic intellectual history and comparative law, begins by examining the evolution of Sunni Islamic legal theory and describes competing theories of Islamic law that co…