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This dissertation examines the transmission of Islamic legal knowledge in modern Egypt. It is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Cairo among formally trained Islamic scholars. With governmental permission, I was able to attend classes at both al-Azhar's Faculty of S…

This dissertation examines debates over curricular and administrative reforms at the Azhar Mosque in nineteenth-century Cairo, Egypt, one of the most influential centers of religious study in the Islamic world. These debates catalyzed a fundamental shift in the way varieties of …