Making Modern Muslims: The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia

By Robert W. Hefner (Editor)

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (January 1, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-0824833169

Making Modern Muslims is the first book to look comparatively at Islamic education and politics in Southeast Asia. Based on a two-year research project by leading scholars of Southeast Asian Islam, the book examines Islamic schooling in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the southern Philippines.