History of Education in the Middle East (19th-20th century)

‪This article presents an overview of research into the history of education in the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries. It shows first of all that this history is dominated by political questioning. Many scholars have described the educational policies of the various states, empires and nation states that succeeded one another in this region. Education then becomes a way of considering the characteristics and functioning of these States, and their transformation. These works on the history of education also deal with the history of educational institutions and highlight their roles in building a national or gender identity, and examine what they reveal of the secularisation of society in the region (and its limitations). Academic works have long neglected other aspects of this history of education, such as students and teachers, textbooks and disciplines, or vocational education. Today new academic research is exploring these subjects.‪