Drawing on a case study, this article shows that a comprehensive empirical analysis of formal and non-formal Islamic education should take three levels of empirical data into account: 1. the explicit rules, curricula and stocks of knowledge in these educational facilities; 2. the actual educational situations in which the curricula are transferred into practice; 3. the relation to the participants of religious education. The case study deals with a Medrese, a non-formal facility in which young followers of Said Nursi, a religious leader in the early Turkish republic, live, pray and study. Focusing on the relation between religion and science, the article shows the specific way how these followers of Said Nursi transfer his teachings into their own religious practice. Even if the contents and methods of this practice may be criticized, it should be taken into account that in a certain way this practice »fits« the social situation of the second migrant generation.

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