The Battle For Muslim Education

Lost in the Middle Eastern fog of war is a struggle that is as much about geopolitics as it is about shaping future generations in a swath of land that stretches from the Gulf states and the Gaza battlefield to Houthi schools in Yemen and jihadist seminaries in Indonesia. It’s a rivalry of competing worldviews in textbooks designed to shape education in the 21st century in Muslim lands. The players run the gamut from jihadists and religious militants to autocracies that propagate a socially more tolerant but politically repressive interpretation of Islam.