Abstract:

On May 5-7, 2005, the Jackson School of International Studies' Asia Centers held an open conference and symposium on Islam, Asia, Modernity at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. This exciting event brought together preeminent scholars and public intellectuals from Asia, Europe, and the United States to share their expertise about the changing practices and politics of Asian Islam. || Conceiving of 'education' in the broadest possible sense (the regulated practice of socialization, as a policy of the modern state, the production of informed citizens, the disciplining of proper moral subjects, etc.) panel 5 examines the ways in which Muslims learn to be 'Islamic' legal subjects as constituted by either Islamic, national, or international legal practices. In this panel Shari'ia, Muslim civil code, international human rights law, and the regulation of practices seen as either obligatory or forbidden from Islamic, national, or international perspectives, might be taken up from different positions and examined ways in which the salience of Muslim political identities are actively produced in Asian societies. Panelists: Imtiaz Ahmed: "Public Education and the Reproduction of Religious Intolerance: The Case of Bangladesh"; Gardner Bovingdon: "Islamic Subjects in School: The End of Faith-Based Initiative?"