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Education in the Middle East: The Golden Age

Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt is one of the world’s first universities.

In the last few years, universities have been sprouting up all over the Middle East. To wean themselves off oil, Gulf states have financed big-name Western institutions like Northwestern University to open up local branches. Saudi Arabia, a nation in which women cannot legally drive, recently opened its first fully-integrated coed university. This week, we’ll look at higher education in the Middle East, where it’s headed and how it’s changing the region.

Today, we begin with a historic look at the region’s “golden age” of learning. While Europe was in the Dark Ages, literature, the sciences and medicine flourished in the Middle East. Zakaryya Mohamed Abdel-Hady is a professor of Islamic Thought and Culture and Chair of the Department of Dawa and Islamic Culture at Qatar University. He says the world’s first universities come from the Middle East.

Nafeez Ahmed, Rogers Pk. Chicago // Wednesday, November 18, 2009 @ 10:53 AM

Why this idealogy took such a long time, since, the Oil Rich Arab countries do have all sort means to get world's luxury and Technology or may be they do lack of such Intellectuals who barely ponder on the cause of the downfall of Golden Age, who has already a Blueprint known as Al-Quraan.