New Islamic Schools: Tradition, Modernity, And Class In Urban Pakistan

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.

• • Author: S. Riaz
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: May 21, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 202 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1349480002
• • ISBN-13: 9781349480005