Rethinking Madrasah Education in a Globalised World [Paperback]

Why is there a need to rethink madrasah education? What is the positioning of Muslims in contemporary society, and how are they prepared? What is the role of the ulama in the reform process? This book explores these questions from the perspective of madrasah education and analyses curricular and pedagogic innovations in Islamic faith-based education in response to the changing place of Islam in a globalised world. It argues for the need for madrasahs to reconceptualise education for Muslim children. Specifically, it explores the problems and challenges that come with new knowledge, biotechnological advancement and societal transformation facing Muslims, and to identify the processes towards reformation that impinge on the philosophies (both Western and Islamic), religious traditions and spirituality, learning principles, curriculum, and pedagogy. This book offers glimpses into the reform process at work through contemporary examples in selected countries.

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Reviewers

Introduction (Mukhlis Abu Bakar)

Part I: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS

1. Challenges to madrasah education in contemporary Muslim societies (Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman)
2. State, community and madrasah reform in India (Arshad Alam)
3. Resistance to reform? The Pakistani madaris in historical and political perspective (Christopher Candland)
4. Modernising madrasah education: The Singapore national and the global (S. Gopinathan)
5. Muslim schools in Britain: Between mobilisation and incorporation (Nasar Meer and Damian Breen)

Part II: CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY

6. Reconceptualising madrasah education: Towards a radicalised imaginary (Yusef Waghid)
7. Developing Shakhciyah Isl
m+yah: Personalised character education for British MlãŠ