New Islamic Schools: Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan

Riaz, S.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-05-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137382467

DOI: 10.1057/9781137382474

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 189