New Islamic schools: tradition, modernity, and class in urban Pakistan

Author
Riaz, Sanaa
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2014
Language
English
Call Number
LC910.P3 R53 2014
ISBN
978-1-137-382467
Reference Only
Off
Number of Pages
189
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Islamic education -- Pakistan
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Islamic religious education -- Pakistan
Abstract

The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools.