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 expansionand the wars he entered.
He cared for education at its stages: higher, secondary and primary.
The missions
He sentmissions of al-Azhar studentstoItaly, France, England and Austriain the period1813 to 1847.
Their aim: to acquire the necessaryexperienceand to study themilitary arts, shipbuilding, navigation, engineering, mechanics, the principles of irrigation and drainage, law and politics.
Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawiwas theimam 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 fortransferring Western knowledge to Egypt.
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