Traditional Muslim institutions in southern Thailand:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Traditional Muslim institutions in southern Thailand: "
H. Madmarn L. A. Giffen

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1112357
Doc. No	:	TLpq303925676
Main Entry	:	H. Madmarn
	:	L. A. Giffen
Title & Author	:	Traditional Muslim institutions in southern Thailand:\ H. MadmarnL. A. Giffen
College	:	The University of Utah
Date	:	1990
student score	:	1990
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	327
Abstract	:	This study is concerned with the Islamic education and Arabic influence in the Muslim institutions, pondok and madrasah, of Pattani--a southern border province of Thailand--once a center of Islamic education and a 'cradle of Islam' for the Malay Muslim world. The introduction provides definitions of some terms used in this work. The discussion begins with the general atmosphere of Pattani, the pondok, and its contributions. The Pattani 'usdulam\ ausd', their works and their roles in Islamic education both inside and outside Pattani are discussed in depth. The influence of Kitab Jawi (religious books written in the Malay language in modified Arabic script) and the Arabic language in the Muslim community of Pattani are critically discussed in detail. The Pattani Muslim-owned printing presses play a key role in the survival of this aspect of Malay-Muslim intellectual activity. As a center of the traditional Islamic education of the Muslims, those of Pattani in particular and the Thailand in general, the pondok, the traditional Islamic school, became the focal point of attention by the Thai government, especially the policy makers, in the past three decades. Government educational reform programs have striven to get education in the Thai language and culture and general subjects incorporated into the Islamic religious schools. Though the initiative and efforts of the Muslim community many of the traditional pondoks have been transmuted into the madrasah, similar to those in the contemporary Arab world, offering Arabic and Islamic religious instruction by more modern methods. More recently these have been officially called the Islamic Private School. After considerable initial resistance and questioning of this program, the religious teachers eventually adjusted their institutions to cope with both the needs of the Islamic community and the need to respond to the government's policy. By and large, the policy of the government toward the Islamic private schools brings the standard of Thai education to parity with that of the public schools and the Arabic-religious education equivalent to that of the Muslim countries.
Subject	:	Education
	:	Educational sociology
	:	Educational sociology
	:	Language arts
	:	Religious education
	:	School administration