Controlling knowledge : religion, power, and schooling in a West African Muslim society / Louis Brenner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-332) and index.

1. Knowledge and Power in Pre-Colonial Muslim Societies -- Muslim schooling and the esoteric episteme -- Legitimacy, knowledge and power -- 2. Medersas, French and Islamic -- The French medersas -- The Origins of the Islamic Medersa Movement -- -Bamako -- -Kayes -- -Segu -- 3. Reform and Counter-Reform: the Politics of Muslim Schooling in the 1950s -- The social and political context of reform -- The politics of counter-reform -- 4. Discourses of Knowledge, Power and Identity -- Muslim doctrinal politics: a discourse about ignorance and truth -- The French, the Africans and the Muslims: a discourse about the Other -- Identity as a transformative system -- 5. Power Relations in the Postcolony -- Knowledge and power in the Republic of Mali -- Islamic resurgence and the materialization of Islam -- 6. The Dynamics of Medersa Schooling -- The expansion of the medersa network -- The socio-economic roots of medersa schooling: changing religious subjectivities -- The social constituencies of the medersas -- -Founders, directors and teachers -- -Parents -- -Students and youth -- 7. Islam, the State and the Ideology of Development: The Politics of Muslim Schooling in the 1980s -- The domestication of the medersas -- The invisibility of the medersas: discursive patterns in the public arena -- The exclusion of the medersas: the 4eme Project Education -- 'Governing men as things': development as a resource of extraversion -- 8. Reprise: Reassessing the Terms of Analysis.