ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN A MINORITY SETTING

Islamic Education in Bangladesh

Mumtaz Ahmad is professor in Hampton University’s Department of Political Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ “Fundamentalism Project,” Dr. Ahmad has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Fellow of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Fulbright Professor in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and a Vis...

Medical Education in Islamic Civilization

The practice of medicine was considered a noble profession by Muslims. Before being allowed to practice one should have acquired a wide experience in medicine and should have been well trained and disciplined. Students were asked to be in close contact with patients in order 10 apply the theory they had learned by allending hospital rounds and seminars. The evolution of medical teaching passed ...

Islamic Education in Pakistan: Second Year Report A Preliminary Draft

Introduction Pakistan it was that first drew the attention of the world to the madrassas – Islam’s most enduring institution for the reproduction of a class of the custodians of Islamic learned tradition – and Pakistan it is that continues to hit the international headlines implicating these madrassas in radical religiopolitical rhetoric, sectarian violence, militancy, and even outright terrori...

The Multiple Faces of Islamic Education in a Secular Age

The ` problem a of minority education in an international perspective

The chapters in this issue originated in the Comparative and International Education seminar given each year at the Pennsylvania State University and re#ect nearly two years of ongoing work analyzing minority educational policy from a cross-national perspective. There are three goals of this special issue. The "rst is to provide readers with case studies of the impact of national educational po...