HIST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mixed Courts Of Egypt, Islamic Culture, Ulama
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Muhammad abduh and jamal al din al afghani. Both leading intellectuals in cairo engaged in the politics of reform in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Azbakiyya is a classical late 19th century model of the idea and ideal of the new city. Abdu and afghani would have moved through both spaces. Historians have looked at the differences between these urban spaces. There"s a lot of scholarship about subjectivity formations (looking at distinctions between the new and the old in cities) Giving a sense of the different kinds of spaces these men would be operating with. Al azhar was at the centre of muslim learning (sudan, somalia, turkey, senegal) exchanging ideas about core canonical texts. Egypt was ruled by muhammad ali"s son ismail pasha. Ismail pasha had run up massive debt that can no longer be repaid. Under pressure from european banks, the country"s nances were being controlled by representatives of france and britain.
