Palestine across millennia : a history of literacy, learning and educational revolutions /: a history of literacy, learning and educational revolutions. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nur Masalha.
• Authors: Masalha, Nur, 1957-
• Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Literacy and Functionality: The Scribal Schools of Ancient PalestineChapter Two: Cities of Learning: The Intellectual Revolutions of Byzantine Palestine (3rd-early 7th Centuries)Chapter Three: Greek and Syriac into Arabic and the Palestine's Translation Movement under Islam: Monasteries of Learning, Mar Saba and Arabic belles lettres (8th -11th Centuries)Chapter Four: Latin Learning and the Crusader Kingdoms of Palestine: The Library of NazarethChapter Five: The Golden Age of the Islamic Law Colleges of Jerusalem:The Palestinian Madrasas under the Ayyubids and Mamluks (1187-1517)Chapter Six: Legal Pluralism and the Social World of Palestine in the 17th Century: The Azhar College of Cairo and Palestinian Muslim ScholarsChapter Seven: The 'Azhar' of Palestine. The Ahmadiyya Seminary of Acre (1782-1948)Chapter Eight: Modernity, the Printing Press and Mass Literacy: The Educational Revolution of Late Ottoman Palestine and the Mandatory Period (1860s-1948)Chapter Nine: Humanism and Arab Nahda Education: Khalil Sakakini and Reforming Palestinian EducationChapter Ten: Learning From Below:The Kuttab Schools in Palestine (Muslim, Jewish and Christian)Chapter Eleven: Between Professionalism and Cultural Nationalism: Palestinian Education in Mandatory Palestine (1918-1948)Epilogue: The Libraries, Archival Collections and Sharia Courts' Records of Modern PalestineBibliography.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.89274; Palestinian Arabs -- Intellectual life; Palestine -- Intellectual life
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780755642977; 9780755642960
• Related ISBNs: 9780755642946; 9780755642953
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