Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: The historiography of educational reform in 19th century Egypt is \ndriven largely by modernization approaches in which reformers are cast as \n‘liberals’ and ‘westernizers;’ figures outside these paradigms tend to be \noverlooked. ‘Abdallah Nadim (1845-1896), a nineteenth century social reformer, \nexperimented throughout his life with ‘educating the nation.’ He founded the first \nIslamic Benevolent Society school in Egypt and authored some of the most widely \ncirculated articles on education and society of his day. In this paper we will review \nNadim’s life history, examine the educational terrain of 1890’s Egypt with \nparticular emphasis on girls’ education, and discuss a specific set of articles \nauthored by Nadim on Muslim youth and European education. With his \ncombination of anticolonial, proto-nationalist, conservative Islamic, yet ‘modern’ \napproach to educational reform, Nadim represents a populist – if neglected figure \nin Egypt’s educational history.
Source: OAR@UM (University of Malta)
Author: Linda Herrera
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2993722289