Dar al-Ulum
DAR AL-ULUM
Teacher-training school in Egypt.
Khedive Ismaʿil Pasha and Minister of Education Ali Mubarak opened Dar al-Ulum in 1871 to train teachers of Arabic for Egypt's new state schools. Its mixed curriculum included both the religious subjects of Islam taught at al-Azhar and "modern" subjects such as history, geography, and mathematics. A college of Cairo University since 1946, Dar alUlum in 2003 had 108 faculty and nearly 9,000 students.
See also Azhar, al-; Cairo University.
Bibliography
Aroian, Lois A. The Nationalization of Arabic and Islamic Education in Egypt: Dar al-Ulum and al-Azhar. New York: American University in Cairo, 1983.
donald malcolm reid
More From encyclopedia.com
Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-wahhab , Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Muḥammad
IBN ʿABD AL-WAHHĀB, MUḤAMMAD (ah 1115–1206/1703–1792 ce), Islamic fundamentalist teacher who established the Wahhābi mov… Al-aqsa Mosque , al-Aqṣā Mosque
Aqṣā Mosque Hussein Ibn Mansur Al-hallaj , Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj (857-922) was a Persian Moslem mystic and martyr. He reinforced ecstatic and pantheisti… Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-ghazali , Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111) was one of the foremost intellects of medieval… Egyptian Islamic Jihad , Two groups have the name Islamic Jihad (sometimes called the Organization of the Islamic Jihad), one Egyptian, the other Palestinian. These two movem… Al-battani , Al–Battani
One of the most important astronomers and mathematicians of this time in either the Eastern or the Western world was al–Battani (c. 858–92…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Dar al-Ulum