Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa

ISBN-13: 9781137552303 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 302 str.

Mbaye Lo; Muhammed Haron

Opis

Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa seeks to enrich the public debate on Muslim education in Africa by offering new insight into the evolving encounter between the diversity of local Islamic knowledge and the politics of transnational trends of Muslim education. Contributors include scholars in the field of Islamic education and administrators in Muslim institutions. Using theoretical studies, case studies of these institutions, and analyzing issues of intellectual viability and graduate visibility in these institutions this volume will serve students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.

Recenzje

"This volume comprises an anthology of essays that glances rigorously at theoretical case studies on Muslim higher education in Africa. It is a lucid and pioneering scholarly work that offers readers countless narratives on Muslim education in postcolonial Africa couched within an overarching socio-historical paradigm." - Yusef Waghid, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education,

Stellenbosch University, South Africa

O autorze

Adnan A. Adikata, Islamic University in Uganda, Kampala, Uganda Abdulmageed Ahmed, International University of Africa, Sudan Chanfi Ahmed, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany Ismail S. Gyagend, Mercer University, USA Moshood Mahmood Jimba, Kwara State University, Nigeria Mamadou-Youry Sall, Université Gaston Berger, Senegal Hamza Mustafa Njozi, Muslim University of Morogoro, Tanzania Wardah M. Rajab-Gyagenda, Islamic University in Uganda Ahmad K. Sengendo, Islamic University in Uganda Adam Adebayo, Kogi State University, Nigeria Alexander Thurston, Georgetown University, USA Adam Yousef Mousa, Republic of Chad Roman Loimeier, University of Göttingen, Germany Ousman Kobo, The Ohio State University, USA