【IDEC Seminar No.53/CICE Seminar No.217】The Deobandi Tradition in Bangladesh: Qaumi Madrasa Education & the Political Rise of their Custodians

The institutionalization of the Deobandi school of thought, a transnational Islamic educational movement originated in northern India during the British colonial period and often linked with Islamic revivalist-reformist ideals and ideology, had been possible thanks to the proliferation and foundation of Islamic religious schools—the unregulated and independent Islamic education system known as Qaumi madrasa— in various forms, structures, and authority since the early twentieth century. This seminar contextualizes the continuity and changes in the proto-typed Deobandi madrasas, their pedagogy and curriculum, and self-initiated reform endeavors. It also interrogates the linkage between educational and political ideology primarily by highlighting the Qaumi-centric Islamic theologians’ political rise within the politics of Islamism in Bangladesh.

Date/Time: April 25th, Thursday, 10:00am(JST)～

Speaker: Dr. Humayun Kabir

Venue: CICE seminar room (IDEC 6F), Online via ZOOM

Co-host: CICE, Hiroshima University・AA Ken Forum/ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

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Contact: The IDEC Institute, Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education(CICE)
kusakabe*hiroshima-u.ac.jp (convert “*” to “@”)