Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt

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Donald Malcolm Reid

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Cambridge Middle East Library

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Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of twentieth-century 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 al-Azhar, the European-inspired Cairo University quickly became the prime indigenous model for other state universities in the region and its influence has spread even beyond the Arab world. Professor Reid has drawn on university archives hitherto untapped by Western scholars and on 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, nationalist hero Saad Zaghlul and Nobel Prize winner Najib Mahfuz, all feature prominently in this fascinating history of Egypt's most important modern educational institution.

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July 4th, 2002

Author

Donald Malcolm Reid

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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30 Tables, unspecified; 7 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

316

Series

Cambridge Middle East Library

Dimensions

152x230x23

ISBN-13

9780521894333

Product ID

2355178

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