pesantren
- noun
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pesantren
- Advocating Women's Rights in the Pesantren
- schools or pesantren
Examples
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Following the custom of the pesantren, at all such seminars the santri sat self-segregated by sex, with the men on one side of the tables and the women on the other.
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In Indonesia, a pesantren is where students learn about Islam while living on campus.
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Many pesantren sponsor community religious education programs and also help support their surrounding communities with alms for the poor.
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One important and popular strategy that gender activists have employed since that period is to address women's rights programs directly to members of Java's pesantren communities.
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The Kyai at their home schools chose the students attending the seminars to represent their pesantren at the seminars.
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The pesantren is often defined as an Islamic boarding school and draws some of its characteristics from the Muslim tradition of madrasas (Geertz 1960).
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The pesantren is a particularly important site for Muslim advocacy programs because of the premier role that it and its leaders play in educating the public and forming notions of Islamic practice in Indonesian society more broadly.
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For all three workshops, seminar participants—between 25-40 men and women in their early to mid-twenties, all santri—were invited, expenses paid, from different regional pesantren to an area hotel for three days of meetings.
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They were significant gatherings because they brought together young male and female santri (students in Islamic boarding schools) to discuss women's political rights, a topic seldom debated in such a format in their pesantren.
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Many pesantren provide education that emphasizes both religious teachings and community service.
Synonyms
A Muslim boarding school in Indonesia run by religious teachers
How Religious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pesantren comes from Indonesian: it puts pe- and -an around santri, a word meaning 'religious student'. So pesantren is like a 'place of students', which is why it names the Islamic boarding schools where students live and learn.