Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century focusedon this question in its report to the premier United Nations agencyin education: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO). In its report, “Learning: The TreasureWithin,” the commission stated that life-long education is basedupon four pillars: learning to know, learning to do, learning to livetogether, and learning...Read More

This book is a valuable contribution to the growing body of research on theexperiences and identities of British Muslim women. Intersections betweengender, ethnicity, and Islam only became a prominent theme in British socialsciences when the need for a careful and fair investigation of Muslim women’srealities arose during the last decade due to the unfolding of...Read More

There have been few studies on Islam in Canada. Hence this publication is awelcome addition to the list. Its ten chapters, divided into four sections, examinediverse issues regarding Muslim cultural politics in the Canadian hinterlands.More specifically, it seeks to understand how they have been affectedby the post-9/11 era of wars, domestic security policies, calls for...Read More

Emerging from a 2005 conference at the University of Passau (Germany),Susanne Schroter’s edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary groupof scholars, from anthropologists and historians to literary scholars and Muslimfemale activists, to examine this complex subject. The book is organizedinto four country-specific sections on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,and Thailand, respectively. The fifth and final section, consisting...Read More