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Title:
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CAIRO UNIVERSITY AND THE MAKING OF MODERN EGYPT
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By: |
Donald Malcolm Reid, Roger Owen, Edmund Burke |
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Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0521894336 |
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9780521894333 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 July, 2002 |
Series: |
Cambridge Middle East Library No.23 |
Pages: |
316 |
Description: |
A fascinating history of modern Egypt's leading educational institution. |
Synopsis: |
Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. It has educated much of the political, professional and cultural elite: doctors and lawyers, novelists and philosophers, bankers and prime ministers have all studied there. Founded in 1908 and for many years competing only with the religious mosque-university of al-Azhar, the European-inspired Cairo University quickly became the prime indigenous model for other state universities in the Arab world. Professor Reid has drawn on university archives hitherto untapped by Western scholars and a wide range of other Arabic and Western sources. He explains the university's part in the national quest for independence from Britain, in the perennial tension between secular and religious world views, and in the push for a more egalitarian society. Nasser and Sadat, Kings Fuad and Faruq, reformers Muhammad Abduh and Taha Husayn, nationalist hero Saad Zaghlul and Nobel Prize winner Najib Mahfuz all feature prominently in this fascinating history of modern Egypt's leading educational institution. |
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7 b/w illus. 30 tables |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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