LINKS AND RESOURCES

    INTRODUCTION

    STUDY AREA

    METHODS & ANALYSIS

    IMAGE GALLERY

    LINKS & RESOURCES

    CONTACTS

REPORTS

• Islamic Education and conflict:  Understanding Madrassahs of Pakistan
• "Juggling Figures, Ignoring Facts"
  response by Samina Ahmed to new Madrasa report
• The State of Sectarianism in Pakistan
• Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data
• A Critique of the "Tablighi-As-Terrorist Thesis"
• Reforming the Indian Madrassas: Contemporary Muslims Voices
• International Terrorism in South Asia
• With Allies Like This: Pakistan and the War on Terrorism
• Madrasas and Arabic Colleges in Contemporary Kerala
• Report of EC Rapid Reaction Mechanism Assessment Mission Pakistan, Education.  (pdf format)
• International Crisis Group:  Pakistan Madrasas, Extremism and the military.  (pdf format)
• Unfulfilled Promises:  Pakistan's Failure to Tackle Extremism (pdf format)
• Reforming Pakistan's Educational System:  The Challenge of the Madrassahs by Robert Looney (pdf format)
• Text Books in Pakistan
• Islamic Education:  A Brief History of Madrassahs with Comments on Curricula and current Pedagogical Practices by Uzma Anzar
• Madrassah and the State of Pakistan:  Religion, poverty and the potential for violence in Pakistan by Tariq Rahman
• Madrassah Reform in Pakistan
• Islamic Religious Schools, Madrasas: Background by Febe Armanios

ARTICLES

• The Madrassa Scapegoat  (Peter bergen and Swati Pandey)
  
• The Educated Terrorist by Saleem Ali
• Understanding Madrassas (Alexander Evans)
  
• Madrassah Reform is Key to Terror War by Abigail Cutler and Saleem Ali
• Medievalism and Pakistan's madrassas
• Madrassa Maths
• Target: Jihad, Madrassa or Islam
• Inside Islam's ''terror schools''
• Bombing girls schools to discourage female education.
• Another school set ablaze in Diamer district of Gilgit
• Mastering the madrassas
• Madrassas survive on donations
• Memon rules out madrassas hand in terrorism
• Clerics may join MMA’s drive against madrassas ordinance
• Pakistan: Despite Reform Plan, Few Changes Seen At Most Radical Madrassahs
• Non-Muslim boom in Madrasahs
• Karachi mosque bombing: Imam was Lashkar’s front man using cop
• Pakistan to regulate religious schools
• The 'university of holy war'
• Pakistan 'weak' on religious schools
• An alternative to religious schools in Pakistan
• Frontline: Saudi time bomb, Madrassah Analysis

VIDEOS

• Children of Faith

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

• Pakistan Education minister's presentation to SAIS

BOOK REVIEWS

• New York Review of Books Article on Madrassas
  
• Bastions of the Believers  -- Review on Amazon.com
  
• Madrase Aur Dehshatgardi: Kya Afsana Kya Haqiqat
  (‘Madrasas And Terrorism: Myth versus Reality') (Urdu)

PAKISTANI MADRASSAHS

• Jamai Ashrafia, Lahore, Pakistan
  
• Khair-ul-Madaris Multan, Pakistan

MADRASSAHS AND JIHAD

• Jaish-e-Muhammad
• Markaz Dawa al Irshad