Reforming Pakistan's Educational System: The Challenge of Madrassas

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Looney, Robert
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Pakistan
education
Maclrassa schools
Islamic fundamentalism
Wahabiism
Jihad
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2003
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Fall 2003
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The author examines the history and functioning of the Madrassa school system in Pakistan, which he secs as a fount of Islamic fundamentalism in that country, and a potential source of recruits for militant Islamic extremism.
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Reforming Pakistans educational system: The challenge of the Madrassas Looney, Robert, The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies; Fall 2003; Vol. 28, No. 3; ProQuest pg. 257
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