Abstract

Higher education in nineteenth-century Egypt experienced a checkered existence at best. By the beginning of Isma'iil Pasha's reign,1 only one secular higher educational institution remained in Cairo from among those established by his grandfather Muhammad 'All (ca. 1805-1848). The Medical School (1827) had managed to survive, but the old Muhandiskhana (Polytechnic) had been combined with the military school located at the Delta Barrage north of Cairo. While SaW Pasha (1854-1863) had promoted the educational activities of foreign schools, one of his first actions had been the elimination of the

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