POSC304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Janissaries, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda
18 Mar 2016
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Political trends in the arab world (march 2, 2016) Algeria: 1908 - literacy rate of 96% (read and write in arabic, 1963 literacy rate of 15% (this one measured in french though) Not sending children to school was the only way to revolt. Colonies that are colonized are also generally christianized: ex: us and baghdad, you are not supposed to fight back. Madrasses are being shut down and parents don"t want to send their children to missionary schools. They start learning french and not their native language of. The secularists: the decline was due to religion and caused them to turn against science. Ex: janissaries gave up european guns and were horribly defeated. Sort of like how the us is hindered from doing stem cell research: need to be nationalists, be socialist, and have a revolution, mostly from the turks. Say religion is why they lost the empire.
