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What are madrasa schools and what skills do they impart?

  • Written by Myriam Renaud, Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Thought and Ethics, University of Chicago
Students at a madrasa in the Assaba region of southern Mauritania in May 2014.Michal Huniewicz, CC BY

Turkey’s recently reelected president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has made expansion of Muslim schools a top priority. Erdogan’s government is reported to have approved a religious education budget of US$1.5 billion this year, an increase of...

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