Volume 52, Number 19 · December 1, 2005
Inside the Madrasas
By William Dalrymple
RECENT BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THIS ARTICLE
Islamic Education and Conflict: Understanding the Madrassahs of Pakistan
by Saleem H. Ali
Paper presented at the US Institute of Peace, June 24, 2005
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
by Olivier Roy
Columbia University Press,349 pp., $29.50
The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West
by Gilles Kepel, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh
Harvard University Press,327 pp., $23.95
Understanding Terror Networks
by Marc Sageman
University of Pennsylvania Press, 220 pp., $29.95
Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity
by Faisal Devji
Cornell University Press,240 pp., $25.00
Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India
by Yoginder Sikand
New Delhi: Penguin India, 400 pp., RS395.00
Shortly before four British Muslims, three of them of Pakistani origin, blew themselves up in the London Underground on July 7, I traveled along the Indus River to Akora Khattack in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Here, straddling the noisy, truck-thundering Islamabad highway, stands the Haqqania, one of the most radical of the religious schools called madrasas.
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