Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-15836-6
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Ph.D.
نظم درجات
History
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Columbia University
امتياز متن
2014
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Founded by the Fatimids in 970 A.D., al-Azhar has been described variously as 'the great mosque of Islam,' 'the brilliant one,' 'a great seat of learning...whose light was dimmed.' Yet despite its assumed centrality, the illustrious mosque-seminary has elicited little critical study. The existing historiography largely relies on colonial-nationalist teleologies that are grounded in a strong centrifugal essentialism: positioning Cairo (and al-Azhar) at a center, around which faithfully revolve concentric peripheries.