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Dār al-ʿulūm
teacher college, Egypt

Dār al-ʿulūm

teacher college, Egypt

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establishment by Mubārak

  • In ʿAlī Pasha Mubārak

    In 1870 he created the Dār al-ʿulūm (“The Abode of Learning”), a teacher training college modelled on the French École Normale Supérieure. He also improved conditions in the village schools, changed the curriculum of the traditional religious schools to emphasize foreign languages and science, and encouraged the translation, publication, and…

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