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The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan

By Masooda Bano

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780801463860
DOI
10.7591/9780801463860
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2097167 bytes)
Pages
264\264
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 19:17:33

Description

She applies analytical tools from the New Institutional Economics to explain apparent contradictions in the madrasa system—for example, how thousands of young Pakistani women now demand the national adoption of traditional sharia law, despite its highly restrictive limits on female agency, and do so from their location in Islamic schools for girls that were founded only a generation ago.

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