Includes bibliographical references and index.

The culture, politics, and future of Muslim education / Robert W. Hefner -- Madrasas medieval and modern: politics, education, and the problem of Muslim identity / Jonathan P. Berkey -- Tradition and authority in Deobandi madrasas of South Asia / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- Madrasas and minorities in secular India / Barbara Metcalf -- The "recentering" of religious knowledge and discourse: the case of al-Azhar in twentieth-century Egypt / Malika Zeghal -- Madrasas in Morocco: their vanishing public role / Dale F. Eickelman -- Islam and education in secular Turkey: state policies and the emergence of the Fethullah Gülen Group / Bekim Agai -- Pesantren and madrasa: Muslim schools and national ideals in Indonesia / Azyumardi Azra, Dina Afrianty, and Robert W. Hefner -- The transformation of Muslim schooling in Mali: the madrasa as an institution of social and religious mediation / Louis Brenner -- Islamic education in Britain: approaches to religious knowledge in a pluralistic society / Peter Mandaville -- Competing conceptions of religious education / Muhammad Qasim Zaman.

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