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Cultural and Intellectual Exchange the Ottoman Egypt and the Rest of the Arab Muslim World in the Eighteenth - Early Nineteenth Century
Kirillina, Svetlana
Kirillina, Svetlana
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This paper discusses about cultural and intellectual exchange that happened in Ottoman Egypt and some regions in Arab Muslim World in the 18th – 19th Century. A number of researchers call this time as “Dark Age” since it was a period of “stagnation”, “degradation” and “anabiosis” of the social life and an era of the agony of Ottoman rule, when the Ottomans lost their last hopes to restore power in their largest Arab province. However, according to the writer, this pessimistic depiction of hopeless society is an exaggerated image or a simplified approach to see the history of Egyptian people. Historically, during the period, there was an intensive relationship between Ottoman Egypt and the other Muslim world. Thus, the historical data of Egyptian-Ottoman chronicles, and biographic compendiums proved that there was productive cultural and intellectual exchange in the famous centers of education like Istanbul, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mecca, Medina, and Egypt.
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2004
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