Trajectories of education in the Arab world : legacies and challenges / edited by Osama Abi-Mershed.

"Published in Association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Politics of Arab Educational Reforms / Osama Abi-Mershed -- 1. The Principles of Instruction are the Grounds of Our Knowledge: Al-Farabi's Philosophical and al-Ghazali's spiritual approaches to learning / Sebastian Gunther -- 2. Between the Golden Age and the Renaissance: Islamic Higher Education in Eighteenth-Century Damascus / Stephen Tamari -- 3. "If the Devil Taught French": Strategies of Language and Learning in French Mandate Beirut / Nadya Sbaiti 4. "According to a Logic Befitting the Arab Soul": Cultural Policy and Popular Education in Morocco Since 1912 / Spencer Segalla -- 5. Public Institutions of Religious Education in Egypt and Tunisia: Contrasting the Post-Colonial Reforms of Al-Azhar and the Zaytuna / Malika Zeghal -- 6. Palestinian Education in a Virtual State / Nubar Hovsepian -- 7. Language-in-Education Policies in Contemporary Lebanon: Youth Perspective / Zeena Zakharia -- 8. Education as a Humanitarian Response as Applied to the Arab World, With Special Reference to the Palestinian Case / Colin Brock and Lala Demirdjian -- 9. Naming the Imaginary:"Building an Arab Knowledge Society" and the Contested Terrain of educational Reforms for development / Andre Elias Mazawi -- 10. An Introduction to Qatar's Primary and Secondary Education Reform / Dominic Brewer and Charles A. Goldman -- 11. Observations from the Edge of the deluge: Are we going too far too fast in our Educational Transformation in the Arab Gulf? / Munir Bashshur.