Shaping Global Islamic Discourses The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina and al-Mustafa

by Bano, Masooda; Sakurai, Keiko

• ISBN13: 9781474424165
• ISBN10: 1474424163
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-04-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Masooda Bano is Associate Professor at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.

Keiko Sakurai is Professor at the Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction, Masooda Bano and Keiko Sakurai

Part I. Making of the Global: Inside the Three Universities
1. The Islamic University of Medina since 1961: The Politics of Religious Mission and the Making of a Modern Salafi Pedagogy, Mike Farquhar
2. Making Qom a centre of Shi'i scholarship: al-Mustafa International University, Keiko Sakurai
3. Protector of the 'al-Wasatiyya' Islam: Cairo's al-Azhar University, Masooda Bano

Part II. Returning Graduates in Negotiation with the Local
4. Ahlussunnah: A Preaching Network from Kano to Medina and Back, Alex Thurston
5. Qom Alumni in Indonesia: Their Role in the Shi'i Community
Zulkifli
6. Islamic Modernism, Political Reform and the Arabisation of Education: The Relationship between Moroccan Nationalists and al-Azhar University, Ann Wainscott

Part III. Returning Graduates and Transformation of the Local
7. From Mecca to Cairo: Changing Influences on Fatwas in Southeast Asia, Yuki Shiozaki
8. 'Azharisation' of 'Ulama Training in Malaysia, Hiroko Kushimoto
Index