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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.
Masooda Bano is a Research Fellow, Oxford Department of International Development and Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
"All in all, this book is thick on social science theory, which is its main strength. It is a useful and timely contribution to the study of South Asia's madrasas."
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