ISLA 210 Lecture Notes - Syriac Orthodox Church, Edward Said
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19 Jul 2012
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Poverty- examples such his difficulty paying for a pencil and notebook, and his family having to sell his new christmas boots to ay for their christmas meal. Can be related how leila ahmed"s assertion that men"s religion is textual religion. Jabra does not make a distinction between how men and women interpret text. Education- his father would stress him staying in school, even if it meant he couldn"t work and contribute to the family expenses. The fact that his brother had to drop out of school but still learns on his own, which shows how much their family value education. Education was a way out and a provider of new opportunities. The focus on language in the rashidiyya school was a secular, nationalist school, and he had to demonstrate his skill in arabic. Class was taking a more important role that religion at this time, and muslims and christians both had to learn arabic.
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