Education by Islamic groups
Individual Documents
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"...Madrasahs (Islamic religious schools) remain the only alternative for educating
Myanmar Muslims in Islamic education, since the national school system does
not cater for any particular faith or belief with the exception of Buddhism, the
faith that more than 70 per cent of people profess. Throughout Myanmar,
hundreds of madrasahs are operating, financed by domestic and foreign
donations. It is a recent phenomenon that Bamar Muslims have endeavoured to
be in touch with their wealthy counterparts in the Arab world to balance the
influence of the Indian subcontinent?s Islamic ideology...The Myanmar administration has never made any serious attempt either to
reform madrasahs or to incorporate them into the mainstream of the national
education system, as has been the case in Thailand and Malaysia. The absence
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Islamic education in Myanmar: a case study
of an authoritative body governing Islamic schools within Myanmar encourages
the mushrooming of madrasahs based on certain thoughts and ideas that seem
to be Islamic. At times, differences of opinion about certain ideas on Islamic
thought become so prevalent among Muslims that sometimes the State has to
intervene to defuse tension among various Muslim communities. In one case,
the authorities closed one Myanmar-speaking madrasah boarding school outside
Yangon when its Muslim supporters were unable to resolve their own internal
conflict..."
Mohammed Mohiyuddin Mohammed Sulaiman
Source/publisher:
2007 Myanmar/Burma Update Conference via Australian National University
Date of publication:
2008-01-00
Date of entry/update:
2008-12-30
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Education by Islamic groups
Language:
English
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