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)

Table of Contents

• Introduction: writing boards and blackboards / Robert Launay
• The classical paradigm
• Styles of Islamic education: perspectives from Mali, Guinea, and the Gambia / Tal Tamari
• Orality and the transmission of Qur'anic knowledge in Mauritania / Corinne Fortier
• Islamic education and the intellectual pedigree of Al-Hajj Umar Falke / Muhammad Sani Umar
• Institutional transformations
• Divergent patterns of Islamic education in northern Mozambique: Qur'anic schools of Angoche / Liazzat J. K. Bonate
• Colonial control, Nigerian agency, Arab outreach, and Islamic education in northern Nigeria, 1900-1966 / Alex Thurston
• Muslim scholars, organic intellectuals, and the development of Islamic education in Zanzibar in the twentieth century / Roman Loimeier
• The new Muslim public school in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Ashley E. Leinweber
• Innovations and experiments
• The Al-Azhar school network: a Murid experiment in Islamic modernism / Cheikh Anta Babou
• Mwalim Bi Swafiya Muhashamy-Said: a pioneer of the integrated (madrasa) curriculum in Kenya and beyond / Ousseina D. Alidou
• Changes in Islamic knowledge practices in twentieth-century Kenya / Rudiger Seesemann
• Walking to the Makaranta: production, circulation, and transmission of Islamic learning in urban Niger / Abdoulaye Sounaye
• Plural possibilities?
• How (not) to read the Qur'an? Logics of Islamic education in Senegal and Ivory Coast / Robert Launay and Rudolph T. Ware III
• New Muslim public figures in West Africa / Benjamin F. Soares
• Collapsed pluralities: Islamic education, learning, and creativity in Niger / Noah Butler.