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TEACHING ISLAM

Name: TEACHING ISLAM
Brand: Vanguard Books
SKU: 813090800X
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TEXT BOOKS AND RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

By ELEANOR ABDELLA DOUMATO , GREGORY STARRETT

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Description

Much has been made of the role that Saudi Arabia's education system played in fostering the hatred that fuelled the September 11 terror attacks. But do Saudi textbooks deserve to be faulted for fostering violence? And have Wahhabi ideas infiltrated the Islamic textbooks used in public schools throughout the Middle East? Confronting these questions, Teaching Islam explores the political and social priorities behind religious education in nine Middle Eastern countries.

The authors reveal draitiatic differences in the way that Islam is presented in textbooks across the range of countries, reflecting local histories and the policy interests of the state. They also illustrate the perhaps surprising adaptability of Islam as leaders strive to reconcile Muslim identity with both state citizenship and the modern reality of an interdependent, globalize world.

About the Author

Eleanor A. Doutnato is visiting fellow at the Watson institute for International Studies, Brown University. Her publications include Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and Society (co edited with Marsha Pripstein Posusney) and Getting God’s Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gui Gregory Starrett is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt.