Academic and cultural illiteracy: causes and results
A COUNTRY’S UNDERDEVELOPMENT stems from the failure to nurture the human being, alongside a propensity to lethargy. Japan, for example,…
Modernization in the Thought of Rifāʽa al-Tahtāwī – 2
PRIOR TO HIS MISSION he lived in Egypt through a period replete with political transformations. He was born in 1801,…
Modernization in the Thought of Rifāʽa al-Tahtāwī – 1
AL-ṬAHṬĀWĪ’S THOUGHT was highly encyclopedic, but what distinguishes it most is two terms that are in their essence more elevated…