Islamic Education in Britain: New Pluralist Paradigms

242 Pages·2015·4.76 MB·English

by  Alison Scott-Baumann and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor

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I slamic Education in Britain
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l s o a v a i l aAble from Bloomsbury
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The Muslim World and Politics in Transition, edited by Greg Barton,
Paul Weller and Ihsan Yilmaz
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Ihsan Yilmaz
s lIam and the Veil, edited by Th eodore Gabriel and Rabiha Hannan
The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies, edited by Clinton Bennett
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I slamic Education in Britain:
New Pluralist Paradigms
lAison Scott-Baumann n d a
S ariya C heruvallil-Contractor
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya.
Islamic education in Britain : new pluralist paradigms / Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor,
Alison Scott-Baumann.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4725-6938-7 (hardback)
1. Islamic religious education–Great Britain. 2. Islamic education–Great Britain.
3. Islam–Study and teaching–Great Britain. I. Scott-Baumann, Alison. II. Title.
BP43.G7C44 2015
297.7'70941–dc23
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Note on text viii
Foreword, Tim Winter ix
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction: Islamic Education in Pluralist Britain 1
1 British Islam and Islamic Education: Two Approaches 9
2 Mapping Islamic Studies Provision in Britain 31
3 More Th an Imams: New Narratives of Muslim Faith Leadership 57
4 Arabic: Th e Centrality of a Living World Language 83
5 Muslim Women’s Voices, Feminisms and Th eologies 105
6 Universities and Muslim Colleges: ‘Collaborative Partnerships’ in
Higher Education 133
Conclusion: New Paradigms for Islam in Education 159
Aft erword, Shuruq Naguib 183
Notes 186
Bibliography 206
Index 216
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Note on text
Transliterations of words, unless specified otherwise, are based on common
English usage as defined by the Oxford Dictionary of Islam, referred to as
Esposito (2003) in the text. Preferred meanings for transliterated Arabic or
Urdu words are included in short in the main text (either in parentheses or as a
footnote) the first time they occur.
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