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Nakissa, Aria Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines the transmission of Islamic legal knowledge in modern Egypt. It is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Cairo among formally trained Islamic scholars. With governmental permission, I was able to attend classes at both al-Azhar's Faculty of Shari'ah and Cairo University's Dar al-'Ulum. I also participated in…
Descriptors: Islam, Islamic Culture, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
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Neill, Charlotte M. – Religious Education, 2006
This article explores the important role that the religion of Islam plays in the education of Egyptian children. The scrutiny under which the Islamic world finds itself in the after-math of September 11, 2001 has resulted in calls for educational reform, not only from the outside world, but also from the Muslim world itself. The author has a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change