EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

EDUCATION UGC NET

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN EARLY HISTORY ISLAM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Fatimid administration,now established in Egypt,toot steps towards founding academies in ____where theological tenets of the Shi,iti School as well as writings of the Greeks and the Persians were studied.
A
Syria
B
Afghanistan
C
Cairo
D
Mecca
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the tenth to twelfth centuries, an area including present-day Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Egypt, and Syria came under the rule of the Fatimid dynasty (909–1171), an offshoot of a Shi’i sect from North Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Fatimids, however, were the heads of a rival religious movement-the Ismāʿīlī sect of the Shiʿi branch of Islam-and dedicated to the overthrow of the existing religious and political order in all of Islam.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Fatimid conquest of Egypt took place in 969, as the troops of the Fatimid Caliphate under the general Jawhar captured Egypt, then ruled by the autonomous Ikhshidid dynasty in the name of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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