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

ISBN-13: 9780748696857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str.

Masooda Bano; Keiko Sakurai

Opis

Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as Jakarta. In a similar manner, it is often regarded as a fact that Iran and the Sunni Arab states are fighting proxy wars in foreign lands. This empirically grounded study challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about the hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions, the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and shows that the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities.
In order to understand this complex interaction between the global and local Islam and the plurality in outcomes, the volume focuses on the workings of three universities with global outreach (al-Azhar University in Egypt, International Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, and al-Mustafa International University in Iran) whose graduating students carry the ideas acquired during their education back to their own countries, along with, in some cases, a zeal to reform their home society.

Spis treści

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.