Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood
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352 pages
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Publication date:
12/07/2018
Hardback
352 pages
Hem Borker
This in-depth ethnography looks at the everyday lives of Muslim students in a girls’ madrasa in India. Highlighting the ambiguities between the students’ espousal of madrasa norms and everyday practice, Borker illustrates how young Muslim girls tactically invoke the virtues of safety, modesty, and piety learnt in the madrasa to reconfigure normative social expectations around marriage, education, and employment.
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Hem Borker
Description
This in-depth ethnography looks at the everyday lives of Muslim students in a girls’ madrasa in India. Highlighting the ambiguities between the students’ espousal of madrasa norms and everyday practice, Borker illustrates how young Muslim girls tactically invoke the virtues of safety, modesty, and piety learnt in the madrasa to reconfigure normative social expectations around marriage, education, and employment.
Amongst the few ethnographies on girls’ madrasas in India, this volume focuses on unfolding of young women’s lives as they journey from their home to madrasa and beyond, and thereby problematizes the idealized and coherent notions of piety presented by anthropological literature on female participation in Islamic piety projects. The author uses ethnographic portraits to introduce us to an array of students, many of whom find their aspirational horizon expanded as a result of the madrasa experience. Such stories challenge the dominant media’s representations of madrasas as outmoded religious institutions. Further, the author illustrates how the processes of learning–unlearning and alternate visions of the future emerge as an unanticipated consequence of young women’s engagement with madrasa education.
About the Author
Hem Borker is assistant professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Hem Borker
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation and Transliteration
1. Introduction
2. Situating Madrasa Education for Girls
3. Journeys of Madrasa Students: Understanding through Ethnographic Portraits
4. In-between Spaces: Locating Madrasa Jamiatul Mominat
5. Making of Kamil Momina: Girls’ Madrasas and the Fashioning of Moral Community
6. Becoming a Kamil Momina: Girls’ Lives Inside Madrasa Jamiatul Mominat
7. From Madrasa to University: Changing Aspirations, Boundaries, and Horizons
8. Conclusion: Bringing Together the Educational Journeys of Madrasa Students
9. Coda: Policy Reflections
Appendix 1: Madrasa Syllabus
Appendix 2: Timeline for Madrasa Modernization
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Hem Borker
Hem Borker
Description
This in-depth ethnography looks at the everyday lives of Muslim students in a girls’ madrasa in India. Highlighting the ambiguities between the students’ espousal of madrasa norms and everyday practice, Borker illustrates how young Muslim girls tactically invoke the virtues of safety, modesty, and piety learnt in the madrasa to reconfigure normative social expectations around marriage, education, and employment.
Amongst the few ethnographies on girls’ madrasas in India, this volume focuses on unfolding of young women’s lives as they journey from their home to madrasa and beyond, and thereby problematizes the idealized and coherent notions of piety presented by anthropological literature on female participation in Islamic piety projects. The author uses ethnographic portraits to introduce us to an array of students, many of whom find their aspirational horizon expanded as a result of the madrasa experience. Such stories challenge the dominant media’s representations of madrasas as outmoded religious institutions. Further, the author illustrates how the processes of learning–unlearning and alternate visions of the future emerge as an unanticipated consequence of young women’s engagement with madrasa education.
About the Author
Hem Borker is assistant professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation and Transliteration
1. Introduction
2. Situating Madrasa Education for Girls
3. Journeys of Madrasa Students: Understanding through Ethnographic Portraits
4. In-between Spaces: Locating Madrasa Jamiatul Mominat
5. Making of Kamil Momina: Girls’ Madrasas and the Fashioning of Moral Community
6. Becoming a Kamil Momina: Girls’ Lives Inside Madrasa Jamiatul Mominat
7. From Madrasa to University: Changing Aspirations, Boundaries, and Horizons
8. Conclusion: Bringing Together the Educational Journeys of Madrasa Students
9. Coda: Policy Reflections
Appendix 1: Madrasa Syllabus
Appendix 2: Timeline for Madrasa Modernization
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
