Female Islamic Education Movements - The Re-Democratisation of Islamic Knowledge

This book challenges the assumptions of creative agency and the role of Islamic education movements for women across the wider Muslim world.

List of contents

1. Understanding knowledge creation: a re-reading of female Islamic education movements; Part I. The Power of Dispersed Knowledge: 2. Incentivising creative outcomes: historical patterns; 3. Knowledge production and student profiles; Part II. Incentivising the Mixing of Knowledge: 4. Institutional shifts: facilitating emergence; 5. Institutional shifts: facilitating expansion; 6. Institutional shifts: the rise of Western feminism; Part III. Conclusion: 7. Incentivising creative outcomes: looking forward.

About the author

Masooda Bano is Associate Professor in the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID), and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. She is currently leading a five-year long European Research Council (ERC) funded project entitled Changing Structures of Islamic Authority and Consequences for Social Change: A Transnational Review. She has previously authored and co-edited three books on Islamic education in contemporary Muslim societies.

Summary

This book challenges restricted notions of female agency in Islamic education movements through comparative studies from across the Muslim world. It is for scholars and students of Islamic studies, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, as well as those researching the role of gender in the Muslim world.

Product details

• Authors: Masooda Bano, Masooda (University of Oxford) Bano
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107188839
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18883-9
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Islam, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Islamic Studies, Philosophy & theory of education, Gender studies: women, Philosophy and theory of education, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities