Dār al-ʿulūm (Cairo)
Dar al-Ulum ( Arabic كلية دار العلوم, DMG kullīyat dār al-ʿulūm 'House of Sciences') is a university in the Egyptian capital Cairo . It was founded at the beginning of the 1870s by Minister Ali Pascha Mubarak as a pedagogical university based on the model of the French École normal supérieure .
history
The original purpose of the college was to teach trainee teachers in Western knowledge. In contrast to al-Azhar University , where Arabic grammar , logic and law were still taught according to the traditional rules, the teachers of the Dar al-Ulum gave courses in Quranic studies, Islamic law , Arabic literature , history, botany, physics and Astronomy according to western principles. The success of the new institution was initially modest, as fewer than 30 students graduated in the first decade of its existence. In 1946 the teacher training institute was incorporated into the State University of Cairo and has since formed its own faculty .
The blind writer Taha Husain , who studied at al-Azhar University, recalls in his autobiography an argument with his cousin, who was a student at Dar al-Ulum . After a lecture with Professor Ahmed Kamal on the history of the pharaohs Taha Husain, he accused Taha Husain of never having heard of Ramses or Akhenaten .
Well-known personalities who taught or studied at Dar al-Ulum include Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905), who became a history professor here in 1878; Hasan al-Bannā (1906–1949), the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood , studied here, as did Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966), leading ideologist of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the scholar Abū Zahra (1898–1974). The Hui Chinese scholar Ma Jian (1906–1978) graduated here in 1939 after graduating from Al-Azhar .
Zainab Radwan (born 1943), professor of Islamic law, is the current dean of the faculty. When she became aware of the increasing influence of militant Islamists on Dar al-Ulum at the turn of the millennium , she had conspicuous leaders arrested. She fights just as vehemently against customs and traditions, which she believes are based neither on Sharia nor on the Sunna , but also meets with criticism.
See also
References and footnotes
- ↑ محمد مكين .. عالم مسلم عظيم محب الوطن - chinatoday.com.cn (accessed December 5, 2019)
literature
- Khadija Katja Wöhler-Khalfallah: Islamic fundamentalism: from the primitive community to the German Islam Conference. 2009 ( partial online view )
- Michael Mann : Global historiography around 1900. 2008 ( partial online view )
- Konstanze Gemeinhardt-Buschhardt: Da'wa: Female activism and the new Muslim women's movement in Egypt. 2015 ( partial online view )
Coordinates: 30 ° 1 ′ 39.4 ″ N , 31 ° 12 ′ 36.5 ″ E