Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This volume focuses on the workings of three universities with global outreach, and 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.
Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations Explores the influence of centres of Islamic learning in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt 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 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 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, and 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.
Contributors
- Masooda Bano, University of Oxford
- Mike Farquhar, School of Oriental and African Studies
- Hiroko Kushimoto, International Islamic University Malaysia
- Keiko Sakurai, Waseda University
- Yuki Shiozaki, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Alex Thurston, Georgetown University
- Ann Wainscott, St Louis University
- Zulkifli, Syarif Hidayatullah
About the Editors
Masooda Bano is Associate Professor in the Oxford Department of International Development, and Senior Golding Fellow, Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She is author of The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan (2012) and Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-Democratisation of Islamic Knowledge (2017), and co-editor of Women, Leadership and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority (2012) and Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina, and al-Mustafa (Edinburgh University Press, 2015, 2017).
Keiko Sakurai is Professor at the Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Table of Contents
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 Shiʿi 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 Shiʿi 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 ʿUlama Training in Malaysia, Hiroko Kushimoto
Index
Bibliographic Information
Title: Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina and al-Mustafa
Editors: Masooda Bano and Keiko Sakurai
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press; 1 edition
Language: English
Length: 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0748696857
Pub. Date: April 1, 2015
