Citizenship, identity, and education in Muslim communities
Subtitle: essays on attachment and obligation
By: edited by Michael S. Merry, Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230104549
Description: This volume represents a rich multi-disciplinary contribution to an expanding literature on citizenship, identity, and education in a variety of majority and minority Muslim communities. Among its aims is to establish the theoretical possibility of a philosophically and doctrinally plausible overlapping consensus between Islam and democracy, to identify respect for difference as one critical component of that overlapping consensus, and to examine a range of Islamic educational practices in various socio-historical contexts. Accordingly, each of these essays offers important insights into the various ways one may identify with, and participate in, different democratic and democratizing societies to which Muslims belong. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.