Word: senatus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known trouble: earthquakes have crumbled the university's minarets, Napoleon's artillery have chipped its walls, and a succession of foreign masters have ruled Egypt. Al Azhar has survived them all-even Saladin, who destroyed its library and exiled its faculty. The university's 32-man Senatus is the highest religious and educational authority in Islam; its rector is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope...
...challenge of the athletic, tweedy, young Oxford-trained dons of Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal universities has only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey, dean of Fuad el Awal and leading man in Arab letters, dared to teach Shaw's Saint Joan, he was assailed by Al Azhar's Senatus. (In the play, a character denounces Mohamed and his "dupes.") Rioting Al Azharites forced Taha Hussein to resign, the fuss broke...