Escolas corânicas tradicionais em Lourenço Marques, 1930-1960

Abstract

This work addresses the debate on Traditional Koranic Schools in Lourenço Marques, 1930- 1960, firstly this period is of great importance for colonial Mozambique, as Salazar's government comes to power with several impositions. The history of Mozambique is recorded at a time when the government had given all the prestige of teaching to the Catholic church through the missionary agreement, so some non-Catholic schools had their continuity compromised. The Koranic schools in the then city of Lourenço Marques continued to carry out their activities, but with strong opposition from the colonial government. In the course of the work, the way in which this group operates within society is analyzed, but they are well known as the schools that perform an important social role in Muslim families; Most of them function as a type of orphanage, despite the teachers' limited resources.