Handbook of Islamic Education

Holger Daun is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has been leading different research projects on globalization, education reform and parents´ educational strategies. He has published several books and a large number of book chapters and articles in scientific journals internationally. Mentioned could be made of Daun, H. and G. Walford (eds.) (2004) Muslim Educational Strategies in a Global Context. Brill Publishers; (2008) School Decentralization in the Context of Globalizing Governance: International Comparison of Grassroots Responses. Springer; Joseph Zajda and Holger Daun (eds.) (2012) Global Values Education: Teaching Democracy and Peace. Springer; and (2008) Islam, Christianity and Secularism in European Education in Journal of Policy Futures in Education.Reza Arjmand is a senior lecturer at Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. Reza has conducted a number of studies and published several books, articles and book chapters on Islamic education, education of Muslims at home and diaspora, everyday life of Muslims' and Muslim urban life. Based on an empirical research, his latest book Public Urban Space, Gender and Segregation (Routledge 2016) studies the notion of space production and formation of the normative and ideologically-laden gender-segregated public spaces and its usage as an instrument for the Islamization of everyday life. In his most recent monograph, Education of the Intimate: Sexuality and Education in Iran Reza endeavours to explore methods of acquiring sexual knowledge among Iranian youth at the absence of an official sex education.