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The modern madrassa
26 January 2012
By Arshad Amanullah Review of Arshad Alam's 'Inside a Madrasa: Knowledge, power and Islamic
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identity in India' The title of this new book gives the impression that its author subscribes to a reductionist understanding of the madrassas; fortunately, the contents belie this notion. As the book unravels the meaning of the word inside in a much wider sense, the title turns out to be a criticism of precisely the kinds of overly simplistic views of the madrassa that have tended to permeate the international media in recent
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