The transmission of knowledge in medieval Cairo : a social history of Islamic education

The 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 in...

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Main Author: Berkey, Jonathan Porter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
Series:Princeton studies on the Near East.
Subjects:
500-1500
Islamic religious education > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Learning and scholarship > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Education, Medieval.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Education, Medieval
Intellectual life
Islamic religious education
Learning and scholarship > Medieval
Cairo (Egypt) > Intellectual life.
Egypt > Cairo
History
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