Educational Divide across Religious Groups in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon
Institutional Effects on the Demand for Curricular Modernization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12236787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Abou Al-Shamat (Southern California University for Professional Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-351 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Islamic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-2340 • E-ISSN: 1471-6917 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jis/etp024 |
| OpenAlex | W2109617576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In nineteenth-century Lebanon, while the Christians attended the newly established ‘modern’ schools the Muslims continued to enrol in ‘traditional’ religious schools. This discrepancy is usually attributed to difference in the supply of schools: missionaries and local Christians establishing new schools on the one hand, and the Muslim ulema's resistance to change on the other. This paper adopts an institutional historical approach and studies this educational divide by shifting focus to demand, to parents’ and pupils’ incentives. Approaching education as an economic investment, it studies the interplay between educational needs and the job market that each community faced. Four factors are pointed out as accounting for the difference in the choices made: military service, appeal of the civil service, existence of parallel institutions—courts and schools, and restrictions on Muslims’ commercial interaction with the West. Such factors maintained the demand for traditional schools by providing job opportunities for their graduates. Those jobs were both economically and socially rewarding so that an immediate shift to ‘modern’ education was unnecessary
Appeal · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Incentive · Investment (military · Islam · Market economy · Modernization theory · Political science · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Service (business · Sociology · Supply and demand · African history and culture analysis · Islamic Studies and History · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |