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The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.
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Danish Institute for International Studies , 1998
Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa. The aim is to introduce the reader to a broad range of cultural, religious and political issues relevant to this field which is made up by three different types of educational institutions: The Koran school, the Western-type formal school and the modern Arabic school. The central themes discussed are the encounter between different forms of knowledge, the conflict between old and new types of Muslim 'knowers' and the strong local tradition of Muslim critique of Western education. The bibliography is divided into two parts: Part One: The School of the Koran and the School of the Government. Muslim Encounters with New Forms of Knowledge, and Part Two: New Muslim 'Knowers'. Islamism and Modernized Arabic Education. The bibliography is concluded by a discussion raising the problem of how broad scholarly generalisations about Islam and Muslims easily distort the complexities of real life in West-African societies and elsewhere. [author]
