Knowledge and power in Morocco : the education of a twentieth-century notable /

"This intensive social biography of a rural Moroccan judge discusses Islamic education, the concept of knowledge it embodies, and its communication from the early years of colonial rule in twentieth-century Morocco to the present. The work sensitively combines the outlooks and perceptions of th...

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Main Author: Eickelman, Dale F., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1985.
Series:Princeton studies on the Near East
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Clifford Geertz
  • Learning and the State
  • Intellectuals: Context and Style
  • Biography as a Social Document
  • The Anthropologist and the Judge
  • The Sharqawi Papers
  • Beginnings
  • Bzu and Its Region
  • The Family Milieu: Origins
  • A Qadi's Childhood
  • His Brother's Footsteps
  • The Education of a Qadi: The Quranic Presence
  • Islamic Knowledge in Morocco
  • The Social Context of Religious Learning
  • Carriers of the Quran
  • Places of Study
  • The Yusufiya: A Profile of Higher Islamic Learning
  • Rural Students in Marrakesh
  • Student Hostels
  • Higher Learning and Society
  • The Mosque-University Milieu
  • The World of the Educated Rural Notable
  • The Return
  • Discerning Islam
  • Self-Images
  • Bzu: The Two Faces of Learning
  • The Responsibilities of Learning
  • Politics and Religion: From Protectorate to Independence
  • The Berber Decree
  • The Colonial Apogee
  • The War Years
  • Postwar Nationalism
  • The Deposition
  • Independence: The View from the Periphery
  • The Great Transformation?
  • The Erosion of Traditional Learning
  • From Mosque-University to Religious Institute
  • Personal Choices
  • Challenges.