Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
A Social History of Islamic Education
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 n…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4008-6258-0
- EAN: 9781400862580
- Produktnummer: 23935162
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
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Jonathan Porter Berkey
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