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

ISBN: 0691606838

ISBN13: 9780691606835

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 intellectual center with a complex social system, the author describes the transmission of religious knowledge there as a highly personal process, one dependent...

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