Controlling knowledge
Subtitle: religion, power, and schooling in a West African Muslim society
By: Louis Brenner.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Islam -- Mali; Islam and state -- Mali; Islam and politics -- Mali; Islamic education -- Mali; Islam -- Africa, West -- History; Mali -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapters; title: 1. Knowledge and Power in Pre-Colonial Muslim Societies; title: Muslim schooling and the esoteric episteme; title: Legitimay, knowlkdge andpower; title: 2. Medersas, French and Islamic; title: The French midersas; title: The Origins of the Islamic Midersa Movement; title: -Bamako; title: -Kayes; title: -Segu; title: 3. Reform and Counter-Reform: the Politics of Muslim; title: Schooling in the 1950s; title: The social and political context of reform; title: The politics of counter-reform; title: 4. Discourses of Knowledge, Power and Identity; title: Muslim doctrinalpolitics: a discourse about ignorance and truth; title: The French, the Africans and the Muslims: a discourse about the; title: Other; title: Identiy as a transformative sytem; title: 5. Power Relations in the Postcolony; title: Knowledge andpower in the Republic of MaH; title: Islamic resurgence and the materialization of Islam; title: 6. The Dynamics of Medersa Schooling; title: The expansion of the midersa network; title: The socio-economic roots of midersa schooling: changing; title: regious subjectivities; title: The social constituencies of the midersas; title: -Founders, directors and teachers; title: v; title: -Parents; title: -Students and youth; title: 7. Islam, the State and the Ideology of Development The; title: Politics of Muslim Schooling in the 1980s; title: The domestication of the mdersas; title: The invisibiky of the medersas: discursive patterns in the pubic arena; title: The exclusion of the midersas the 4me Projet Education; title: CGoverning men as things' development as a resource of extraversion; title: 8. Reprise: Reassessing the Terms of Analysis; title: Bibliography; title: Index.