Word: mohammedan
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...Perhaps the most remarkable illustration of native teaching in Cairo is to be found in the university, which is established in what was formerly a mosque. This is the university of the Mohammedan world. Students come hither to avail themselves of its instruction not only from all parts of Egypt, but from all over the Orient, and the number in constant attendance ranges from 10,000 to 12,000. For over 900 years this institution has kept the even tenor of its way in this same old mosque, in the same old fashion of teaching and learning, with the same...
...instruction given comprehends all degrees of advancement, from the first rudiments of the language to the most erudite disquisitions on mathematics, logic, philosophy, grammar, theology, and Mohammedan religion and law according to the different rites. The errors in both natural and mental science that must be transmitted from generation to generation, by the fanatical intolerance which bars out all "new-fangled" notions may be imagined, but it is doubtful whether their scholastic ignorance goes quite so far as is related of the college engineers, in Constantinople. not many years ago. A committee of foreign engineers had been invited...