"Graduates” of the madrassas are supposedly either retained as teachers for the next generation of recruits, or are se…"

"Jamaati Ulama Islam ... figured as a fairly minor part of Pakistan's religious scene until the regime of General Zia …"

"After 11 years of Islamization by Zia ul Haq, the madrassa total then ballooned to 2801 with the Deobandis accounting…"

"Whatever the outcome of the Muavia case, the controversy sheds light on a hidden phenomenon, the frequent sexual abus…"

"No one thought to ask about what would happen next ... nearly an entire generation came of age in a peculiar all-male…"

"Every academic in China works under a censorship and ideological regime that distorts and repackages his work to make…"

"Traditionally, Siamese boys have been educated in Buddhist [monasteries], and more than 77 per cent of the local publ…"

"“Thailand needs more than book fairs in Bangkok. Books should travel to schools or malls, offering free reading activ…"

"Here I may add an interesting footnote to the sociological history of modern Muslim India and Pakistan. Almost every …"

"It was the poet Iqbal’s hope that an Indian Muslim state might rid Islam of “the stamp that Arab imperialism was forc…"