Replicating the Deobandi model of Islamic schooling: The case of a Quomi madrasa in a district town of Bangladesh

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 415-428

  Kabir, Humayun ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deobandi; Madrasa; Maslaki; Othering; Ulama

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; EDUCATION; ISLAMISM; TEACHING;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70849119113     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584930903275884     Document Type: Article

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