Edited by Robert W. Hefner & Muhammad Qasim Zaman

Acknowledgments vii
A Note on Transliteration and Spelling ix
Contributors xi
CHAPTER 1: Introduction: The Culture, Politics, and Future of Muslim Education by Robert W. Hefner 1
CHAPTER 2: Madrasas Medieval and Modern: Politics, Education, and the Problem of Muslim Identity by Jonathan P. Berkey 40
CHAPTER 3: Tradition and Authority in Deobandi Madrasas of South Asia by Muhammad Qasim Zaman 61
CHAPTER 4: Madrasas and Minorities in Secular India by Barbara Metcalf 87
CHAPTER 5: The "Recentering" of Religious Knowledge and Discourse: The Case of al-Azhar in Twentieth-Century Egypt by Malika Zeghal 107
CHAPTER 6: Madrasas in Morocco: Their Vanishing Public Role by Dale F. Eickelman 131
CHAPTER 7: Islam and Education in Secular Turkey: State Policies and the Emergence of the Fethullah Gülen Group by Bekim Agai 149
CHAPTER 8: Pesantren and Madrasa: Muslim Schools and National Ideals in Indonesia by Azyumardi Azra, Dina Afrianty, and Robert W. Hefner 172
CHAPTER 9: The Transformation of Muslim Schooling in Mali: The Madrasa as an Institution of Social and Religious Mediation by Louis Brenner 199
CHAPTER 10: Islamic Education in Britain: Approaches to Religious Knowledge in a Pluralistic Society by Peter Mandaville 224
CHAPTER 11: Epilogue: Competing Conceptions of Religious Education by Muhammad Qasim Zaman 242
Index 269