The transmission of knowledge in Medieval Cairo : a social history of Islamic education
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The transmission of knowledge in Medieval Cairo : a social history of Islamic education
（Princeton studies on the Near East）
Princeton University Press, 1992
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Bibliography: p. [219]-228
Includes index
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This study 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 centre 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.
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