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Review Article

Alternative Education or Teaching Radicalism?

New Literature on Islamic Education in Southeast Asia

Holger Warnk

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Hefner, Robert W. (ed.) (2009) , Making Modern Muslims. The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-3316-9, 246 pages

Liow , JosephChinyong (2009) , Islam, Education and Reform in Southern Thailand. Tradition and Transformation, Singapore: ISEAS, ISBN 978-981-230-954-9, 218 pages

Berlie , Jean A. (2008) , TheBurmanization of Myanmar’s Muslims, Bangkok: White Lotus Press, ISBN 978-974-480-126-5, 155 pages

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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Table of Contents

Abstract: 6

Holger Warnk 7

[Main Article] 8

References 22

Alternative Bildungschance oder Radikalenausbildung? Neue Literatur zu islamischer Bildung in Südostasien 25

Zusammenfassung: 25

Notes 26

Abstract:

This review article focuses on three recent publications on Islamic education in Southeast Asia. While two are monographs on South Thailand and Myanmar/ Burma, one is a collection of essays on Indonesia, Malaysia, South Thailand, Cambodia, and the Southern Philippines. All works highlight local, regional and international educational networks, as well as their connections to the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. Based chiefly on first-hand fieldwork, the works deliver an up-to-date and detailed picture of current discussions and developments regarding Islamic education in Southeast Asia.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Islam, religion, education

Holger Warnk

Holger Warnk is a part-time lecturer in Southeast Asian Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt/M. and at theUniversität Passau. His research focuses on history, education, and politics in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia and Indonesia. Selected publications: “The coming of Islam andMoluccan -Malay culture to New Guinea, ca. 1700-1920”, in: Indonesia and the Malay World, 38, 2010 (forthcoming); Religion undIdentität :Muslime undNicht-Muslime inSüdostasien , Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz , 2008 (ed.with Fritz Schulze).