TY - BOOK AU - LIOW Chinyong Joseph TI - Islam, education and reform in southern Thailand: tradition & transformation SN - 9789812309549 (hbk) : PY - 2009/// CY - Singapore PB - ISEAS KW - THAILAND KW - SOUTHERN PROVINCES KW - ISLAMIC EDUCATION N2 - Study of education in Southern Thiland which notes the enormous complexity of the subject; the role of ethno-religious identity (Malay Muslims); structure of Islamic education; pedagogies, curricula and texts; and the attitiude of the Thai state to the educational preferences of the regions Muslim inhabitants. Also covers the growing role of the Jemaat Tabligh movement ER -