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- catalog abstract ""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 not being locked into formal channels, religious education was never exclusively for the elite but was open to all. Berkey explores the varying educational opportunities offered to the full run of the Muslim population--including Mamluks, women, and the "common people." Drawing on medieval chronicles, biographical dictionaries, and treatises on education, as well as the deeds of endowment that established many of Cairo's schools, he explains how education drew groups of outsiders into the cultural center and forged a common Muslim cultural identity." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/91021262.html.".
- catalog contributor b3269890.
- catalog coverage "Cairo (Egypt) Intellectual life.".
- catalog coverage "Egypt Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description ""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 not being locked into formal channels, religious education was never exclusively for the elite but was open to all. Berkey explores the varying educational opportunities offered to the full run of the Muslim population--including Mamluks, women, and the "common people." Drawing on medieval chronicles, biographical dictionaries, and treatises on education, as well as the deeds of endowment that established many of Cairo's schools, he explains how education drew groups of outsiders into the cultural center and forged a common Muslim cultural identity." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/91021262.html.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228) and index.".
- catalog description "Instruction -- Institutions -- Professors and Patrons: Careers in the Academic World -- Religious Education and the Military Elite -- Women and Education -- Beyond the Elite: Education and Urban Society.".
- catalog extent "x, 238 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691031916 (acid-free paper) :".
- catalog isPartOf "Princeton studies on the Near East".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Cairo (Egypt) Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Cairo".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "297/.7 20".
- catalog subject "BP64.E32 C353 1992".
- catalog subject "Education, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "Islamic religious education Egypt Cairo History.".
- catalog subject "Learning and scholarship History Medieval, 500-1500.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Instruction -- Institutions -- Professors and Patrons: Careers in the Academic World -- Religious Education and the Military Elite -- Women and Education -- Beyond the Elite: Education and Urban Society.".
- catalog title "The transmission of knowledge in medieval Cairo : a social history of Islamic education / Jonathan Berkey.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".