Scholarly articles and books on Islamic education in general and madrasas in particular

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Philosophy of Islamic Education

• Ahmad, Khurshid. Principles of Islamic Education. Lahore: Islamic Publications, 1984.
• Al-Attas, Syed Muhammad Naquib. Aims and Objectives of Islamic Education. Jeddah: King Abdulaziz University, 1979.
• Bakar, Osman. Classification of Knowledge in Islam. Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization, 2006.
• Cook, Bradley, ed. Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2010.
• Ibn Jamāʿa, Badr al-Dīn. Tadhkirat al-sāmiʿ wa al-mutakallim fī adab al-ʿālim wa al-mutaʿallim. Beirut: DKI, 1354.
• Sardar, Ziauddin, and Jeremy Henzell-Thomas. Rethinking Reform in Higher Education: From Islamization to Integration of Knowledge. London: IIIT, 2017.

The Premodern Period

• ʿAbd al-Ḥayy, Sayyid. Hindustān kā niṣāb-i dars aur us kay taghayyurāt. Lucknow: Shuʿba-i Taʿmīr wa Taraqqī Dār al-ʿUlūm Nadwat al-ʿUlamā, n.d.
• Berkey, Jonathan. The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Gīlānī, Manāẓir Aḥsan. Pāk-o-Hind main Musalmānon kā niẓām-i taʿlim-o-tarbiyyat [The Educational System of Muslims in India and Pakistan]. Lahore: Maktaba Raḥmānia, n.d. [originally published as Hindustān main Musalmānon kā niẓām-i taʿlim-o-tarbiyyat]
• Jaffar, S.M. Education in Muslim India. Delhi: Idara Adbiyāt-i Dillī, 1972.
• Mubarakpuri, Qazi Athar. Khayr al-Qurun ki dars gahayn aur un ka nizam-i taʿlim-o tarbiat. Lahore: Idara Islamiat, 2000.
• Robinson, Francis. “Ottomans-Safavids-Mughals: Shared Knowledge and Connective Systems.” In Journal of Islamic Studies 8:2 (1997), 151-184.
• Ware III, Rudolph T. The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

The Modern Period

• Gesink, Indira. “Islamic Reformation: A History of Madrasa Reform and Legal Change in Egypt.” Comparative Education Review vol. 50, no. 3 (2006): 325-345.
• Gīlānī, Manāẓir Aḥsan. Sawāniḥ Qāsmī [Biography of Qāsim] 2 vols. Deoband: Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband, n.d.
• Hefner, Robert and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
• Kāndhlavī, Nūr al-Ḥasan Rāshid. “Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband aur Maẓāhir-i ʿUlūm Sahāranpūr kā sab say pehlā niṣāb-i taʿlīm: Is kī maʿnawiyyat wa jāmiʿiyyat aur dūr ras natā’ij wa samarāt.” Aḥwāl o Āsār (Muḥarram, Ṣafar, Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1429 AH): 91-117.
• Leitner, G. W. The History of Indigenous Education in the Panjab since Annexation and in 1882. Patiala, India: Languages Department Punjab, 1971.
• Mahmood, Hamid. “The Dars-e-Niẓāmī and the Transnational Traditionalist Madāris in Britain.” MA thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012.
• Moosa, Ebrahim. What is a Madrasa? Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
• Al-Nadvi & Moinuddin. Survey of Muslim Education: India Cambridge: The Islamic Academy, 1985.
• Nadwi, Mohammad Akram. Madrasah Life: A Student’s Day at Nadwat al-Ulama. London: Turath Publishing, 2007.
• Pernau, Margrit ed. The Delhi College: Traditional Elites, the Colonial State, and Education before 1857. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Rizvī, Sayyid Maḥbūb. Tārīkh Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband [History of Darul Uloom Deoband]. 2 vols. Lahore: al-Mīzān Publishers, 2005.
• Robinson, Francis. The ʿUlama of Farangi Mahall and Islamic Culture in South Asia. Lahore, Pakistan: Ferozsons, 2002.
• Sikand, Yoginder. Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2005.
• Tayyib, Qārī Muḥammad. Tārīkh Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband [History of Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband]. Karachi: Dār al-Ishāʿat, 1972.
• Usmānī, Muḥammad Taqī. Dars-i niẓāmī kī kitābayn kaysay parhāyn? [How to Teach Texts of Dars-i Niẓāmī?]. Karachi: Maktaba Nuʿmānia, 2003.