THE RATIONAL BELIEVER: CHOICES AND DECISIONS IN THE MADRASAS OF PAKISTAN

Book ID/图书代码： 03360011B50668

English Summary/英文概要： islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks since the events of 9/11. in pakistan, the 2007 siege by government forces of islamabad’s red Mosque and its madrasa complex, whose imam and students staged an armed resistance against the state for its support of the “war on terror,” reinforced concerns about madrasas’ role in regional and global jihad. By 2006 madrasas registered with pakistan’s five regulatory boards for religious schools enrolled over one million male and 200,000 female students. in the Rational Believer, Masooda Bano draws on rich interview, ethnographic, and survey data, as well as fieldwork conducted in madrasas throughout the country to explore the network of pakistani madrasas. She maps the choices and decisions confronted by students, teachers, parents, and clerics and explains why available choices make participation in jihad appear at times a viable course of action.

Bano works shows that beliefs are rational and that religious believers look to maximize utility in ways not captured by classical rational choice. She applies analytical tools from the new institutional economics to explain apparent contradictions in the madrasa system—for example, how thousands of young pakistani women now demand the national adoption of traditional sharia law, despite its highly restrictive limits on female agency, and do so from their location in islamic schools for girls that were founded only a generation ago.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 伊斯兰学校，以及穆斯林学校被指控在9.11事件后主动或被动地参与了恐怖网络事件。2007年巴基斯坦，政府武力围攻了伊斯兰堡红色清真寺和穆斯林教会，伊斯兰祭司以及他的学生对此进行了武装抵抗。直到2006年，注册过的穆斯林学校中共有超过100万的男学生和20万女学生。在《理性信仰者》中，Masooda Bano采用了丰富的采访，人种以及调查资料，也在全国的穆斯林学校进行实地考察，并调查了巴基斯坦穆斯林学校的网站。

Bano的作品表明信仰是理性的。她运用了新制度经济学的分析工具来阐述穆斯林学校系统中的明显矛盾。例如，如何解决数以千计的巴基斯坦年轻女性的教育问题，尽管女性学校受到严格的控制，以往也只办过一届。(兼职翻译-XAT)

Awards/获奖情况：这本极有见地且严谨的书使有关巴基斯坦穆斯林学校的传言不攻自破。《理性信仰者》也讲了一些制度分析与理性选择理论领域的关键问题。”——abdulkader sinno，印第安那大学，《阿富汗战争组织》的作者

About the Author/作者介绍： Masooda bano是国际发展牛津地区，牛津大学的研究员。

Masooda bano is a research Fellow, oxford Department of international Development and Wolfson College, University of oxford.

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