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Rawdat Al Madaris

Educational magazine in Egypt (1870–1878)

Rawdat Al Madaris (Arabic: روضة المدارس المصرية, lit. 'School Garden'), also known as Rawdat Al Madaris Al Misriyah,[1] was a bimonthly education magazine which was published in Cairo, Egypt, between 1870 and 1877. It was the first Egyptian and Arab publication which specifically focused on education.[2]

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History and profile

Rawdat Al Madaris was established by the Ministry of Education led by the reformist Ali Pasha Mubarak in 1870.[3][4] It was started part of Khedive ismail's reforms.[2] In the first issue its goal was stated as "the consolidation of the educational system and the shaping of the minds of the students and their sensibility."[5] Therefore, it attempted to broaden knowledge which was to be expressed in an easily understood language.[6]

The editor of Rawdat Al Madaris was Rifaa Rafi Al Tahtawi from its start in 1870 to 1873.[7][8] The magazine played a significant role in the introduction of his views.[5] Tahtawi's son, Ali Fahmi, worked in Rawdat Al Madaris as a director.[2] The magazine was headquartered in Cairo and came out bimonthly.[9][10] It was distributed freely to students,[9] and teachers were asked to subscribe to the magazine.[6]

Rawdat Al Madaris produced many articles on school reform in Egypt and shaped the basis of this reform.[2] Its reform approach was based on Jamal al-Din al-Afghani's ijtihad view.[11] The magazine supported the teaching of botany, geography and history and that of traditional subjects.[2] Ali Pasha Mubarak, Rifaa Rafi Al Tahtawi, Abdullah Fikri and İsmail Al Falaki were some major contributors of Rawdat Al Madaris.[6] Contributors of the magazine also included university professors and undergraduate students who published articles on various scientific subjects, including chemistry.[4][12] In addition, the magazine featured an Arabic translation of Molière’s Le Médecin malgré lui by Muhammad 'Uthman Jalal in 1871.[13][14] However, it was published in only three issues of the magazine due to the obscenity of the language used by Jalal.[13] The magazine also covered Arabic poetry contributing to its revival.[5]

Rawdat Al Madaris folded in 1877.[2][15]

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    "Pre-1919 Egyptian Newspapers and Serials". Penn Libraries. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  2. [2]
    Hoda A. Yousef (2008). "Reassessing Egypt's dual system of education under İsmaʿil: Growing ʿIlm and Shifting Ground in Egypt's First Educational Journal, Rawdat Al-Madaris, 1870–77". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 40 (1): 110, 112. doi:10.1017/s0020743807080439. S2CID 232251210.
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    Muhammet Günaydın (2008). "The Role of Nineteenth Century Egyptian Press in the Development of Modern Arabic Literary Language -I: -Socio-Political Setting and al-Muwaylihi's ma Hunalik-". İstanbul Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (18): 207.
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    Islam Abdel Moatamed Mohamed; et al. (2020). "Egyptology Schools in Egypt during the Nineteenth Century". Minia Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research MJTHR. 9 (1): 41–42. doi:10.21608/mjthr.2020.139587. S2CID 242632564.
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    Sabry Hafez (2000). "Literary innovation: Schools and journals". Quaderni di Studi Arabi. 18: 20–21. JSTOR 25802892.
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    Lorne M. Kenny (1967). "'Alī Mubārak: Nineteenth Century Egyptian Educator and Administrator". The Middle East Journal. 21 (1): 47–48. JSTOR 4324090.
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    Ellen McLarney (2016). "Freedom, justice and the power of Adab". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 48 (1): 46. doi:10.1017/s0020743815001452. S2CID 148519427.
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    Marilyn Booth. "Fénelon's Traité de l'éducation des filles and Girls' education in Egypt, c. 1900". Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe.
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    Heidi Morrison (2015). Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 49. doi:10.1057/9781137432780. ISBN 978-1-137-43278-0.
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    Donald Malcolm Reid (1993). "The Egyptian Geographical Society: From Foreign Laymen's Society to Indigenous Professional Association". Poetics Today. 14 (3): 569. doi:10.2307/1773284. JSTOR 1773284.
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    Indira Falk Gesink (2003). ""Chaos on the Earth": Subjective Truths versus Communal Unity in Islamic Law and the Rise of Militant Islam". The American Historical Review. 108 (3): 727. doi:10.1086/529594.
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    Marilyn Booth (2023). "Book review. Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt, edited by Eleanor Dobson". Victorian Studies. 64 (4): 684. doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.21. S2CID 258168433.
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    Sameh F. Hanna (2009). "Othello in the Egyptian Vernacular". The Translator. 15 (1): 163. doi:10.1080/13556509.2009.10799275. S2CID 144471356.
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    Adam Mestyan (2014). "Arabic theater in early Khedivial culture, 1868–72: James Sanua Revisited". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 46 (1): 123. doi:10.1017/s0020743813001311. hdl:10161/12572. S2CID 162781557.
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    Philip Sadgrove (1987). "Book review. Matti Moosa, The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 19 (1): 110–111. doi:10.1017/s002074380003169x. S2CID 162185296.
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