@inbook{8ed1351a795643ed9fb9e13fbb513e9c,
title = "'Ulamā' e istituzioni a Damasco all'epoca della fondazione delle madāris ahliyya (xix-xx secolo).",
abstract = "Despite a certain western look tending to consider overall the group of 'ulamā' as {"}misoneist{"} (that is to say {"}hostile to any innovation{"}), the relationship of the 'ālim with the institutional sphere in late-Ottoman Damascus gives evidence of a more complex role from a social as well as cultural perspective which takes into account the changes introduced by modernity. The considerable impoverishment of culture - with particular regard to those institutions mainly appointed to education in an Arab-Islamic context - following the general process of reform in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire - drives many 'ulamā' to re-consider their position, through a recovery of the past, on the one hand, and a search of a more specific identity, on the other. Consequently, some particular cases shall be taken into account, as the foundation of modern non-governmental schools (madāris ahliyya).",
author = "Daniele Sicari",
year = "2017",
language = "Italian",
isbn = "978-88-255-0160-5",
series = "STUDI SULL'ISLAM",
pages = "13--32",
booktitle = "Ulema: dotti musulmani di scienze religiose. Conservatori e misoneisti?",
}