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Feb. 25 Catching Up With Modern Egypt. Oldest University Has A New Look: If the entry requirement of English universities were to know the Bible by heart the problem of finding enough places for aspiring students would vanish. Yet in the oldest university in the World, Al Azher in Cairo every entrant until recently had to be able to recite the whole of the Korea, must still learn by heart long passages. Al Azher has had a long story of prosperity and decline. Built in 972 A.D. by Jebel the Sicilian and since partially destroyed and rebuilt several times, it was once a flourishing centre of Islamic heresy, become in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries a world-wide source of intellectual stimulation until its slow lapsing throughout the past few hundred years into old fashioned and thoughtless religious dogma. Now things are changing rapidly. As part of a ten year plan land has been reclaimed from the desert and a new campus is being built outside the city. Two modern faculties, engineering and medicine, have been added to the traditional ones of Islamic Law, Arabic Studies, Theology and Commerce, there will be a new teaching hospital and modern opportunities for recreation, and as an even more radical step in a country where until a few years ago when covered their faces and took part in public life, a faculty has been formed for girls to learn homemaking, religious teaching and secular subjects. In the beautiful old mosque where learned me used to stand and te moslem philosophy to the student sitting at their ft, the lovely colonded courtyard and living quarters surrounding the main curtyard, students from all over the world now walk barefoot on the holy ground, read the Koran and modern scientific techniques, will probably stay on as long as 22 year taking back their new knowledge and wisdom to 54 countries. Applications for entry increase and numbers next year will reach 40, 000, making Al Azher once again the leader of the intellectual Islamic world. An inner sanctum outside the great hall of the mosque. The prayer niche is finely decorated and china hanging down form inside the cupola once used for candles now carry tiny oil lamps

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