Cheering madrasas

Madrasas, according to Ms Borker, changed the lives of Muslim girls. Otherwise, they may have been still stuck at home, changing nappies

Hasan Suroor 

A madrasa is a quintessentially Islamic institution which, like Islam, doesn’t recognise the notion of separate religious and secular spaces and regards dini (religious or spiritual) and duniyavi (worldly/material) as two sides of the same coin — a non-negotiable package, take it or leave it.

A worldview that makes madrasas look antediluvian — and the education they impart irrelevant to the needs and temper of a secular age. Many would say they don’t just “look” antediluvian; they’re antediluvian and no amount of pretend-modernisation by ...

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First Published: Tue, January 01 2019. 22:25 IST