Cairo University and the making of a modern Egypt
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Cairo University and the making of a modern Egypt
(Cambridge Middle East library, 23)
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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Note
Bibliography: p. 272-281
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on academic terminology and transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. The Private University, 1908-1919: 1. Antecedents
- 2. Implementing the plan
- 3. Challenges and adjustments
- Part II. The University and the Liberal Ideal, 1919-1950: 4. The transition to a state university
- 5. Rival imperialisms and Egyptianization
- 6. Issues of equity: a university for whom?
- 7. The university and politics, 1930-1950
- 8. The issue of religion
- Part III. In Nasser's Shadow, 1950-1967: 9. The end of the old regime
- 10. Quality, quantity, and careers
- 11. Mobilizing the university?
- Part IV. The University since Nasser: 12. The open door and the Islamist challenge
- Conclusion and prospect
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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