The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo : A Social History of Islamic Education /

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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 in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berkey, Jonathan Porter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Learning and scholarship > Medieval.
Islamic religious education.
Intellectual life.
Education, Medieval.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Savoir et erudition > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Learning and scholarship > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Islamic religious education > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Egypt > Cairo.
Cairo (Egypt) > Intellectual life.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION, NAMES, AND DATES
  • ONE. Introduction
  • TWO. Instruction
  • THREE. Institutions
  • FOUR. Professors and Patrons: Careers in the Academic World
  • FIVE. Religious Education and the Military Elite
  • SIX. Women and Education
  • SEVEN. Beyond the Elite: Education and Urban Society
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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