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The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo - A Social History of Islamic Education (Hardcover)
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The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo - A Social History of Islamic Education (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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.
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