Talk:Madrasa

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message: This section seems to be denying the very strong religious flavor of madrasah teaching. That flavor is presented in detail in the rest of the article. Certainly it can be said that the word just means "school." Certainly not all madrasahs teach radical Islam. But even more certainly, there is a very heavy connotation of religious education in the word, and most madrasahs have Islamic teaching as the foundation of their curriculum. This section, for some reason, seems to paper that over. Lou Sander (talk) 15:13, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Misuse of the word" 

message: Medrasa, etc simply means school. Madaris means schools. Why are we referring to them in Arabic while discussing the various schools that exist? Is this not a promotion of the misuse of a foreign language word? School in English = school. Madrasah in Arabic equals Madrasah. Madrasah= school. School =madrasah. 
Why not just start substituting a lot of English words with Arabic equivalents? The entire article is a bit discriminatory. Religious schools are translated into religious schools in Arabic. And school is translated into equivalent “school”.  LebaneseBebe (talk) 10:21, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Let’s be clear, loanwords are often reflective of the true meaning of the word. They are not usually appropriated in order to promote discrimination and bigotry. 
Secondly,Thomas.W, what you stated about schools in Arabic speaking countries simply isn’t true. Most schools in the Arabic speaking world are titled as “madrasa” and that includes catholic schools in Lebanon, in their Arabic titles, so don’t make ridiculous statement like that, it’s not objective and it’s silly. Furthermore, most Arabic speakers refer to school as “madraseh”, so please don’t try to argue against this fact. Whether you like it or not the word means school in Arabic, simply school. And if this is an English language article on what the word means to English language speakers, I can say this, that Arabic to English dictionaries define it correctly as simply “school”, while a number of bigoted and misinformed people define the Arabic word for school as Islamist or Islamic school. 
Additionally, just because you’re mistranslations a word, doesn’t make it right. There are dictionaries that don’t agree with you. And you’re just blatantly promoting racism and discrimination. But look, I don’t go around wiki editing Spanish words, or Italian words, etc. I don’t go around wiki telling other people what the words in their languages mean, and use their words against them to denote something discriminatory and negative.
And you can stop deleting sourced information because you would like to promote your bigotry.  LebaneseBebe (talk) 12:00, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

text: Somehow we manage to use "gelato" in English to refer specifically to an Italian style of ice cream, even though in Italian the word simply means "ice cream", without Italians getting hysterical and insisting that a deep hatred for Italians is involved and imagining that this amounts to English speakers telling Italians what the word should mean in Italian. And people from English-speaking countries don't bat an eye over the sort of adaptations Japanese speakers have made of English words. Largoplazo (talk) 20:06, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are we using the word Medrasa? 

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message: I noticed that we use "madaris", the Arabic plural, in many places here where it's not needed. Since this is an English article, and madrasa is used as a loanword in this context, I would strongly recommend that at least in section titles, and preferably also in general usage throughout the article, we use the English plural "madrasas" (which is pretty common in English-language literature where this topic comes up). If the Arabic madaris is used anywhere, it should be in italics in order to make it clearer that it is not an English word (see MOS:FOREIGNITALIC). Otherwise, general readers will be confused and think there is both a word "madrasa" and a word "madaris" (or they might even think the word is "madari" and it's being pluralized to "madaris"). Keep in mind that many readers also come to just skim an article and will look through the section titles for what they're interested in, so having "madaris" in those is especially confusing at first sight.</br>
I'd like to check that other editors would agree? Cheers, Robert Prazeres (talk) 15:14, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.VR talk 15:37, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recommendation to use English plural ("madrasas") in general usage here 

message: Needs a table of contents at or near the top of the article.  (As is customary with very long Wikipedia articles like this one.) Ocdcntx (talk) 15:18, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a table of contents at or near the top of the article.  (As is customary with very long Wikipedia articles like this one.)  

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