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Education and its role in building the state

Education and its role in building the state

Point 1 of 6 — Lesson 14: Building the Modern State – Education, Administration and Army under Muhammad AliQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)

01Education and its role in building the state

  • Under Muhammad Ali, education was tied to the policy of economic monopoly, building internal strength, external expansion and the wars he entered.
  • He cared for education at its stages: higher, secondary and primary.

The missions

  • He sent missions of al-Azhar students to Italy, France, England and Austria in the period 1813 to 1847.
  • Their aim: to acquire the necessary experience and to study the military arts, shipbuilding, navigation, engineering, mechanics, the principles of irrigation and drainage, law and politics.
  • Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi was the imam of the students of the first large mission to France (1826) and benefited greatly from French culture.
  • He realised the value of learning the sciences of European societies, so he proposed founding the School of Languages (1836) to teach European languages and translation — it deserves much credit for transferring Western knowledge to Egypt.

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