New Islamic Schools

Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan

The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools.

Nevertheless, his reformed Islamic curriculumincludes academicsubjects, suchas business, technology, finance, and thesocial sciences. However, effortsinThailand are not similar to the private Islamic schools inPakistan, where theeffort ...