FAITHED-forsker Nora S. Eggen har analysert og dekonstruert begrepet "koranskole" slik det er brukt i et omfattende corpus av norske fagtekster, avistekster og litterære tekster. Resultatet er publisert i artikkelen "Between term and trope: The 'koranskole' in Norwegian public discourse" i årets (2023) siste nummer av Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies/Tidsskrift for islamforskning. Les artikkelen her (åpen tilgang). Nora oppsummerer slik (s. 113-114):
After investigating the appearance of the term koranskole in the material, I suggest the following typology for its meanings and functions: 1) It is used as a specific technical term, denoting what I have called Qurʾanic instruction proper as it is offered in some mosques. 2) It is also used as a metonymical technical term, denoting any kind of non-formal educational activities in a Muslim faith-based organization (mosque or other organization). 3) It is used as a generic term with a metonymic or symbolic quality for any kind of minority community-based children’s activity. 4) The term koranskole works as an Oriental trope, evoking images of past grandeur in distant times, places, or cultural contexts, and present stagnation. 5) It works as a nostalgic, dismissive, or mixed memory trope, to which an author can pin a past and assume a position for a character, in fiction as well as in biography or autobiography. 6) Lastly, the term koranskole seems to have taken on a metaphorical quality detached from its lexical content, evoking an image of rigidness or stagnation.
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