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

By Sanaa Riaz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349480002
• ISBN13: 9781349480005
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"