Islamic education in Africa : : writing boards and blackboards / / edited by Robert Launay.

• TeilnehmendeR: Launay, Robert, 1949-
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington ;, Indianapolis : : Indiana University Press,, [2016]; 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Other title: Introduction: writing boards and blackboards /; Styles of Islamic education: perspectives from Mali, Guinea, and the Gambia /; Orality and the transmission of Qur'anic knowledge in Mauritania /; Islamic education and the intellectual pedigree of Al-Hajj Umar Falke /; Divergent patterns of Islamic education in northern Mozambique: Qur'anic schools of Angoche /; Colonial control, Nigerian agency, Arab outreach, and Islamic education in northern Nigeria, 1900-1966 /; Muslim scholars, organic intellectuals, and the development of Islamic education in Zanzibar in the twentieth century /; The new Muslim public school in the Democratic Republic of Congo /; The Al-Azhar school network: a Murid experiment in Islamic modernism /; Mwalim Bi Swafiya Muhashamy-Said: a pioneer of the integrated (madrasa) curriculum in Kenya and beyond /; Changes in Islamic knowledge practices in twentieth-century Kenya /; Walking to the Makaranta: production, circulation, and transmission of Islamic learning in urban Niger /; How (not) to read the Qur'an? Logics of Islamic education in Senegal and Ivory Coast /; New Muslim public figures in West Africa /; Collapsed pluralities: Islamic education, learning, and creativity in Niger /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780253022707 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780253023025 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780253022707; 9780253023186 (ebook)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Robert Launay.