Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt by Donald Malcolm Reid

Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt by Donald Malcolm Reid

Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. It has educated much of the political, professional and cultural elite: doctors and lawyers, novelists and philosophers, bankers and prime ministers have all studied there. Founded in 1908 and for many years competing only with the religious mosque-university of al-Azhar, the European-inspired Cairo University quickly became the prime indigenous model for other state universities in the Arab world. Professor Reid has drawn on university archives hitherto untapped by Western scholars and a wide range of other Arabic and Western sources. He explains the university's part in the national quest for independence from Britain, in the perennial tension between secular and religious world views, and in the push for a more egalitarian society. Nasser and Sadat, Kings Fuad and Faruq, reformers Muhammad Abduh and Taha Husayn, nationalist hero Saad Zaghlul and Nobel Prize winner Najib Mahfuz all feature prominently in this fascinating history of modern Egypt's leading educational institution.

Donald Malcolm Reid has written a major work which is both instructive and genuinely entertaining to read...Complex as his subject is, he has managed to harness a great amount of material and to have presented a fascinating picture of one of the world's major national institutions....Well written and manageable in terms of data and argument, this sustained study of Cairo University, alma mater to Egypt's other state universities (except for Al Azhar), is a commendable study in Egyptian university history and in the wider scholarship of the history of universities. Jean-Pierre V. M. Herubel, Digest of Middle East Studies

Reid, Donald Malcolm: - Donald Malcolm Reid is author of Whose Pharaohs? Archaeologies, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I and Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt, among other works. He is professor emeritus, Georgia State University, and affiliate professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington.

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ISBN 13	9780521894333
ISBN 10	0521894336
Title	Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt
Author	Donald Malcolm Reid
Series	Cambridge Middle East Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2002-07-04
Number of pages	316
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