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List of figures and tables | p. vii |
Notes on contributors | p. viii |
Acknowledgments | p. xiv |
Introduction: the politics of Arab educational reforms | |
Historical perspectives | p. 13 |
The principles of instruction are the grounds of our knowledge: Al-F&abar;r&abar;b&ibar;'s philosophical and al-Ghaz&abar;l&ibar;'s spiritual approaches to learning | p. 15 |
Between the "golden age" and the Renaissance: Islamic higher education in eighteenth-century Damascus | p. 36 |
"If the Devil taught French": strategies of language and learning in French mandate Beirut | p. 59 |
"According to a logic befitting the Arab soul": cultural policy and popular education in Morocco since 1912 | p. 84 |
Education and the post-colonial state | p. 109 |
Public institutions of religious education in Egypt and Tunisia: contrasting the post-colonial reforms of Al-Azhar and the Zaytuna | p. 111 |
Palestinian education in a virtual state | p. 125 |
Language-in-education policies in contemporary Lebanon: youth perspectives | p. 157 |
Education as a humanitarian response as applied to the Arab world, with special reference to the Palestinian case | p. 185 |
Education and socio-political development: reform, policy, and practice | p. 199 |
Naming the imaginary: "building an Arab knowledge society" and the contested terrain of educational reforms for development | p. 201 |
An introduction to Qatar's primary and secondary education reform | p. 226 |
Observations from the edge of the deluge: are we going too far, too fast in our educational transformation in the Arab Gulf? | p. 247 |
Index | p. 273 |
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