Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt

Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt\n\nA history of Egypt's first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.\n\nHilary Kalmbach (Author)\n\n9781108423472 (SKU 3291264), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 22 October 2020\n\n288 pages\n16 x 23.5 x 2 cm, 0.56 kg\n\n'Hilary Kalmbach illuminates a critical hybrid pathway to modernity between al-Azhar and the civil schools - the teacher's college of Dar al-Ulum. That future Muslim Brothers Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb studied there underlines its significance for understanding Islamic revival movements from the 1930s to the present, in Egypt and around the world.' Donald M. Reid, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\n\nThis historical study transforms our understanding of modern Egyptian national culture by applying social theory to the history of Egypt's first teacher-training school. It focuses on Dar al-Ulum, w]