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Schooling Muslims in Natal : identity, state and the Orient Islamic Educational Institute
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Schooling Muslims in Natal : identity, state and the Orient Islamic Educational Institute / Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen.
ISBN
9781869142926
1869142926
Publication
Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
xii, 457 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary
Traces the labors and fortunes of a set of progressive idealists who, mobilizing merchant capital, transoceanic networks and informal political influence, established the Orient Islamic Educational Institute in 1943 to found schools and promote a secular curriculum that could be integrated with Islamic teaching. Through the story of their Durban flagship project - the Orient Islamic School - the book provides a fascinating account of the changing politics of religious identity, education and citizenship in South Africa.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 09, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-443) and index.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Islam between empire and nation: Indian schooling, madressas and the state in Natal, c.1880-1927
Towards Aligarh in Africa: the founding of the Orient Islamic Educational Institute, 1927-43
Shifting grounds: the search for a school site in a divided city, 1943-8
Politics of "integrated" state-aided schooling, 1942-57
The making of Orient School, 1946-60
Deenyath: debating an Islamic syllabus for a state-aided school
Duniyanee: teaching and learning in the era of separate development, 1960-94
Reorientations: from state-aided to independent status, 1994-8
Conclusion: the Orient in a new century
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Index.
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