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In order to better understand the Islamic education in France, this chapter begins by a brief overview of the French educational system and the French notion of “Laïcité.” Since 1905, the law on the separation of the churches (Catholic, Protestant, and Israelite) and the state has been applied in the whole public sphere in France, except in the Alsatian and the Moselle departements, which were under the German rule when the law was enacted in 1905. Because of the 1905 law, the French educational system – the curricula and the teachers – are secularized. However, two types of schools exist: the public and the private schools. Most of the private schools are Catholic and have signed a contract with the state. Since some years back, there exist also some Muslim private schools. What are their relations with the state? What kind of education do they deliver? What are their relations with Qur’ānic schools? The chapter will endeavor to address those questions.
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van den Kerchove, A. (2018). Islamic Education in France. In: Daun, H., Arjmand, R. (eds) Handbook of Islamic Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64683-1_31
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