عنوان

Education and society:

شماره

TLpq303803370

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Education and society:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jonathan Porter Berkey

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Higher religious learning in late medieval Cairo

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1989

نام خاص و کميت اثر

342-342 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Princeton University

امتياز متن

1989

متن يادداشت

This thesis presents a broad study of the social, cultural, and institutional history of higher Islamic religious education in Cairo during the Mamluk period (1250-1517). The first chapter outlines the institutional structure of education, showing how madrasas, mosques, and Sufi convents grew increasingly similar, but revealing the wide variety in the size, orientation, and character of these academic institutions. The second chapter, however, emphasizes that the system of education remained fundamentally informal, despite the endowment of "chairs" and fellowships to support learning. The system cannot fully be understood in terms of institutions and institutional definitions, but only as a system built on complicated and authoritative networks of personal relationships between instructors and students. The third chapter begins an investigation into the roles of various social groups in the world and process of education. The 'ulama', the educated civilian elite, was able to use the creation of endowed institutions to benefit, not the 'ulama' as a class, but particular powerful families and individuals within it. Patronage was widespread, but not the patronage of scholars by manipulative members of the Mamluk military elite; rather, leading individuals from amongst the 'ulama' patronized junior scholars, handling out lucrative teaching appointments, or withholding them for their own sons. The three final chapters suggest that various groups of "outsiders" in fact participated actively in the study and transmission of the Muslim sciences. The Mamluks, despite the cultural gulf which separated them from their Egyptian subjects, displayed a keen interest in Muslim learning, and many eagerly studied with prominent civilian scholars. The common people of Cairo, too, took an active part in the activities of the schools; their intellectual endeavors suggest that no sharp line can be drawn between rigorous academic training and the popular recitation and transmission of religious texts. Finally, women, although excluded from most academic and legal professions, took advantage of the informality of Islamic education to acquire an important role in the transmission of Muslim learning, especially of the Prophetic traditions. Education, in short, provided the means for drawing disparate and in some ways peripheral social groups into the Islamic cultural center.

موضوع مستند نشده

Egypt

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle Ages

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle Eastern history

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy, religion and theology

موضوع مستند نشده

Religious history

موضوع مستند نشده

Social sciences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jonathan Porter Berkey

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y