@article{2023:faheemuddin:shibli_nu,
title = {Shibli Nuʿmani},
year = {2023},
note = {Muslim reaction to Western education in India divided the country into
two, a few welcoming it by opening a Western-based educational
institute whereas others rejected it by founding a Muslim seminary.
However, there was a middle way that was offered by the late
nineteenth and early twentieth century education reformer Shibli
Nu’mani. By analysing Shibli’s speeches, articles, and books, this
article argues that Shibli offered a way out of the dichotomy of West
and East. He argued for a change in the curricula of religious
education and offered a contextualized solution for education,
depending upon where one is placed. Hence, he went on to establish an
English school for village children, a religious seminary for those
who wanted to pursue reformed religious education, a school for the
correction of society for the rural people to understand religion, and
a Writers’ Academy to produce academics. It goes on to show that
there existed a diversity in the perception among Muslims on the
question of education. In this article Shibli Nu‘mani will be
referred as Shibli following the tradition of Urdu academics to use
the first name.},
journal = {Anthropos},
pages = {461--470},
author = {Faheemuddin},
volume = {118},
number = {2}
}