Sonia Dhanani, a fourth-grade religious education teacher in Long Island, smiles as one of her students starts debating another, who is dressed in a tiger costume.
They are enacting an adaptation of the Case of the Animals versus Man from the Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa — narrated in the Primary Four Ta‘lim curriculum materials — and some of the students are getting a little too passionate about their roles. As Dhanani reads aloud the story about a struggle between the humans and the animals, the students take on different roles using the animal masks that they have made in class
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