Madrasas in South Asia

Jamal Malik is Chair of Religious Studies - Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His publications include The Colonization of Islam and Islamische Gelehrtenkultur in Nordindien. He edited Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History 1760-1860; Muslims in Europe: From the Margin to the Centre; and co-edited Religious Pluralism in South Asia and Europe; Sufism in the West (also published by Routledge) and Religion und Medien. Vom Kultbild zum Internetritual (2007).

• 1. Introduction Jamal Malik 2. Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas: The Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur Usha Sanyal 3. Making Muslims: Identity and Difference in Indian Madrasas Arshad Alam 4. Madrasas: The Potential for Violence in Pakistan? Tariq Rahman 5. Pakistani Madrasas and Rural Underdevelopment: An Empirical Study of Ahmedpur East Saleem H. Ali 6. Pakistan’s Recent Experience in Reforming Islamic Education Christopher Candland 7. The Gender of Madrasa Teaching Nita Kumar 8. Cinematic Representation of Islamic Learning and Identity Conflict in Bangladesh Zakir Hossain Raju 9. Power, Purity and the Vanguard: Educational Ideology of the Jama’at-i-Islami of India Irfan Ahmad 10. In Lieu of a Conclusion Jamal Malik

'This collection of writings on madrasas after 9/11 should be mandatory reading book reviews 429 for those who are studying the contemporary mix (local and international) of religious institutions with politics and economics.'- Mohammad Talib, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies'Utilising an ethnographic research strategy, a thorough political, sociological and historical analysis of selected Muslim educational institutions are offered.' - Abdullah Sahin, The Muslim World Book Review, 30:3, 2010