ABSTRACT
This book explored rationales and practices of early childhood education for Muslim children in South Africa in a Muslim minority context. Whilst it addressed a specific context, the issues it raises have broader cultural, educational and civic relevance. In current times, the education of Muslim children and the activities of the institutions that provide for them, especially those that are faith-based, are under high scrutiny. This is due to the activities of Islamic movements with radical intent, Islamophobia and, more broadly, dissatisfaction with faith-based institutions that are considered to be promoting parochialism instead of cosmopolitanism associated with a more integrated approach to religion for the purpose of shared citizenship and co-existence (Strandbrink 2015).
