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The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo : A Social History of Islamic Education / Jonathan Porter Berkey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies on the Near East ; 183Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1992Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (252 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691606835
  • 9781400862580
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297/.7
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION, NAMES, AND DATES -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Instruction -- THREE. Institutions -- FOUR. Professors and Patrons: Careers in the Academic World -- FIVE. Religious Education and the Military Elite -- SIX. Women and Education -- SEVEN. Beyond the Elite: Education and Urban Society -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims. Focusing on Cairo, which under Mamluk rule (1250-1517) was a vital intellectual center with a complex social system, the author describes the transmission of religious knowledge there as a highly personal process, one dependent on the relationships between individual scholars and students. The great variety of institutional structures, he argues, supported educational efforts without ever becoming essential to them. By not being locked into formal channels, religious education was never exclusively for the elite but was open to all. Berkey explores the varying educational opportunities offered to the full run of the Muslim population--including Mamluks, women, and the "common people." Drawing on medieval chronicles, biographical dictionaries, and treatises on education, as well as the deeds of endowment that established many of Cairo's schools, he explains how education drew groups of outsiders into the cultural center and forged a common Muslim cultural identity.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION, NAMES, AND DATES -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Instruction -- THREE. Institutions -- FOUR. Professors and Patrons: Careers in the Academic World -- FIVE. Religious Education and the Military Elite -- SIX. Women and Education -- SEVEN. Beyond the Elite: Education and Urban Society -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims. Focusing on Cairo, which under Mamluk rule (1250-1517) was a vital intellectual center with a complex social system, the author describes the transmission of religious knowledge there as a highly personal process, one dependent on the relationships between individual scholars and students. The great variety of institutional structures, he argues, supported educational efforts without ever becoming essential to them. By not being locked into formal channels, religious education was never exclusively for the elite but was open to all. Berkey explores the varying educational opportunities offered to the full run of the Muslim population--including Mamluks, women, and the "common people." Drawing on medieval chronicles, biographical dictionaries, and treatises on education, as well as the deeds of endowment that established many of Cairo's schools, he explains how education drew groups of outsiders into the cultural center and forged a common Muslim cultural identity.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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