Word: islamicize
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Few people, however, seek out the feeling of hunger on purpose. For the past 20 days, hundreds of Muslims on campus, including myself, have done precisely that—deliberately shunned food and drink from sunrise to sunset in observance of the Islamic month of Ramadan.
It’s all done for good reason. Fasting has great spiritual importance in Islam; a blindingly vast corpus of religious tradition, scholarship, and run-of-the-mill ritual accompanies the month of Ramadan. Leaving all of that aside, however, fasting also offers important secular lessons. Whether or not...
Without access to the daily lives of teachers and their students, studies on Iranian schooling have proven to reveal more about their authors and our shifting preconceptions of Iran than any sort of reality on the ground. The truth is that postrevolutionary schooling in the Islamic Republic has not gone...
What does Iran's pedagogical state produce after 12 years of schooling? Certainly not the "Islamic Citizen" envisioned by state planners, nor the fanatical partisan imagined by the Islamic Republic's critics in the West. At best, schools contribute to a shared framework for consent and opposition to the state...
In recent days, there has been growing speculation that schools and universities will not open their doors for the fall semester out of concern that students will extend the allegedly Western-inspired protest movement to Iran's many campuses. The reality is that the Islamic Republic has no one to...