Article ID: CBB499623018

Ottoman Madrasas: The Multiple Lives of Educational Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Syria (2001)

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Nineteenth- and twentieth-century students of educational institutions in Damascus have disparaged the Ottoman period as one of decline. This article challenges the assumptions and the conclusions of these historians by looking at the status of Islamic colleges, madrasas, during the eighteenth century. Though the construction of madrasas in the eighteenth century did not rival the "golden age" of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, all phases of Damascus' history as a center of Islamic education should be put in the context of alternating periods of ups and downs. Within such a context the Ottoman period in general and the eighteenth century in particular emerge as much more vibrant than historians once assumed.

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Authors & Contributors
Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin
Andreas Feldtkeller
Uta Zeuge-Buberl
Wittje, Roland
Webster, Frank
Wallis, Peter
Concepts
Science education and teaching
Societies; institutions; academies
Universities and colleges
Science and society
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Biographies
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
Ottoman Empire
Great Britain
Turkey
Syria
Bath (England)
Afghanistan
Institutions
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
National Society of Black Physicists (United States)
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