The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools.

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Sanaa Riaz is Assistant Professor at Ashford University, USA.

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Book Title: New Islamic Schools
Book Subtitle: Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan
Authors: Sanaa Riaz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137382474
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38246-7Published: 21 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48000-5Published: 21 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-38247-4Published: 20 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 189
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Urban Studies/Sociology, Religious Studies, general, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Understanding Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Islamic Education

Situating the Islamic Schooling Trend in Pakistan

The Educational System in Pakistan and the Place of Islamic Schooling

Examining Diversity in Islamic Schools

Knowledge at Play

Toward a New Approach to Islamic Education

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