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Third of world's poorest girls denied access to school

sooda

Veteran Member

Great link.. Thanks.

Baghdad is a city screaming in pain and dying in the smokescreen. As we watch the tangled mess on our television screens, it is hard to imagine that Baghdad was once a great seat of learning. Baghdad and books have been synonymous for hundreds of years.

Bookshelves line family homes and booksellers line the streets of Baghdad. Even now, amidst the rubble and pandemonium the residents of Baghdad shop for books. “It is an old disease in Iraq – people spend their money on books, not on food,” jokes an Iraqi translator for NBC News[1].

In the period, that western history has come to call the Dark Ages, the love affair between Baghdad and books began. In a time when churches across Europe felt themselves fortunate to have a library consisting of several books, there was a street in Baghdad lined with more then 100 shops, each selling books, stationary, or both.

Across the western world, literacy was restricted to the rich or religious authorities, but in Baghdad, the people had access to more then 30 libraries.

Within 200 years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, the small Islamic nation grew into an Empire that stretched from North Africa to Arabia, from Persia to Uzbekistan and pushed onwards to the frontiers of India and beyond.

750CE Baghdad, the city built on the banks of the Tigris River was established as the capital of the Islamic empire. Its location connected it to countries as far away as China, and Baghdad soon became not only the political and administrative centre but also the hub of culture and learning.

Men and women from all parts of the Empire flocked to Baghdad and brought with them knowledge from the far corners of the known world.

Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Zoroastrians, and even people from other more obscure faiths lived in Baghdad. Books began to symbolise life of Baghdad. The streets were alive with authors, translators, scribes, illuminators, librarians, binders, collectors, and sellers.

However, these people from such diverse backgrounds need to be connected. Arabic developed as the language of scholarship and the connection was established.

The works of Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Plutarch among many others were translated into Arabic. Jewish philosophers used Arabic translations of Greek philosophical works to write their own treatise and essays. When Europe began to emerge from the Dark Ages into a period of enlightenment, they relied on books written in Arabic to redeem and reclaim the foundations of the Western empire.

Many of the original books translated in Baghdad were lost or destroyed in their home countries, and remained only in their Arabic translations. The scholars of Baghdad were responsible for preserving classical works from the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians and even translated classics from Persia, India and China. These great works were then translated from Arabic back into languages such as Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, and Latin.

Catholic theologian, Thomas Aquinas made his famous integration of faith and reason after reading Aristotle’s philosophy in a translation by Baghdad scholars.

The scholars of Baghdad not only collected and synthesised the great works, they added to the body of knowledge. They opened up new fields of scholarship, such as celestial mechanics, and introduced the world to algebra and geometry. A Baghdad scholar produced an ophthalmology textbook, believed the world’s first medical book containing anatomical drawings. It was the definitive work in both the east and west, and was used for more than eight centuries.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Great link.. Thanks.

Baghdad is a city screaming in pain and dying in the smokescreen. As we watch the tangled mess on our television screens, it is hard to imagine that Baghdad was once a great seat of learning. Baghdad and books have been synonymous for hundreds of years.

Bookshelves line family homes and booksellers line the streets of Baghdad. Even now, amidst the rubble and pandemonium the residents of Baghdad shop for books. “It is an old disease in Iraq – people spend their money on books, not on food,” jokes an Iraqi translator for NBC News[1].

In the period, that western history has come to call the Dark Ages, the love affair between Baghdad and books began. In a time when churches across Europe felt themselves fortunate to have a library consisting of several books, there was a street in Baghdad lined with more then 100 shops, each selling books, stationary, or both.

Across the western world, literacy was restricted to the rich or religious authorities, but in Baghdad, the people had access to more then 30 libraries.

Within 200 years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, the small Islamic nation grew into an Empire that stretched from North Africa to Arabia, from Persia to Uzbekistan and pushed onwards to the frontiers of India and beyond.

750CE Baghdad, the city built on the banks of the Tigris River was established as the capital of the Islamic empire. Its location connected it to countries as far away as China, and Baghdad soon became not only the political and administrative centre but also the hub of culture and learning.

Men and women from all parts of the Empire flocked to Baghdad and brought with them knowledge from the far corners of the known world.

Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Zoroastrians, and even people from other more obscure faiths lived in Baghdad. Books began to symbolise life of Baghdad. The streets were alive with authors, translators, scribes, illuminators, librarians, binders, collectors, and sellers.

However, these people from such diverse backgrounds need to be connected. Arabic developed as the language of scholarship and the connection was established.

The works of Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Plutarch among many others were translated into Arabic. Jewish philosophers used Arabic translations of Greek philosophical works to write their own treatise and essays. When Europe began to emerge from the Dark Ages into a period of enlightenment, they relied on books written in Arabic to redeem and reclaim the foundations of the Western empire.

Many of the original books translated in Baghdad were lost or destroyed in their home countries, and remained only in their Arabic translations. The scholars of Baghdad were responsible for preserving classical works from the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians and even translated classics from Persia, India and China. These great works were then translated from Arabic back into languages such as Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, and Latin.

Catholic theologian, Thomas Aquinas made his famous integration of faith and reason after reading Aristotle’s philosophy in a translation by Baghdad scholars.

The scholars of Baghdad not only collected and synthesised the great works, they added to the body of knowledge. They opened up new fields of scholarship, such as celestial mechanics, and introduced the world to algebra and geometry. A Baghdad scholar produced an ophthalmology textbook, believed the world’s first medical book containing anatomical drawings. It was the definitive work in both the east and west, and was used for more than eight centuries.

And its all over now, gone like Elvis and drive in movies.
Or your ancestors hunting wooley mammoths,
or whatever.

Totally irrelevant to the values and behaviour today.

China's determination to tamp down Islam
within its borders needs to be understood in this
context.
 

sooda

Veteran Member
And its all over now, gone like Elvis and drive in movies.
Or your ancestors hunting wooley mammoths,
or whatever.

Totally irrelevant to the values and behaviour today.

China's determination to tamp down Islam
within its borders needs to be understood in this
context.

I don't have much interest in what China does or doesn't do.
 

sooda

Veteran Member
Or in the gross deficiencies of islam, but we all have
our interests.

Reform and modernity are slow to come in the Muslim world. Its only been in the last decade that clerics have stated that much of what passes for Islam are just old tribal customs and traditions.
 

Wandering Monk

Well-Known Member
‘A third of the world's poorest girls, aged between 10 and 18, have never been to school, says the United Nations.

A report from Unicef, the UN's children's agency, warned that poverty and discrimination were denying an education to millions of young people.

It criticised a "crippling learning crisis" for impoverished families, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

The findings were published as education ministers from 120 countries gathered for a conference in London.’

Read more here: Third of world's poorest girls denied education

While technically true that more males are literate than females, female literacy globally has risen from 79% to 89% from 1985 to 2014 while male literacy has risen from 89% to 95% in the same period.

This means that female literacy rates are improve at nearly double the male literacy rates.

Literacy rate of young men and women
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
‘A third of the world's poorest girls, aged between 10 and 18, have never been to school, says the United Nations.

A report from Unicef, the UN's children's agency, warned that poverty and discrimination were denying an education to millions of young people.

It criticised a "crippling learning crisis" for impoverished families, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

The findings were published as education ministers from 120 countries gathered for a conference in London.’

Read more here: Third of world's poorest girls denied education

There is one country (Maybe not the only one) where statistically girls school more than boys. But the difference is very small. Maybe 1%. A third world country.
 

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
According to this link, the 10 toughest countries for girls to get an education are:

South Sudan
Central African Republic
Niger *
Afghanistan *
Chad *
Mali *
Guinea *
Burkina Faso *
Liberia
Ethiopia

I starred the 6 of 10 countries on the list that are Muslim majority countries.

10 toughest places for girls to go to school
 

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
Relatedly, here are two maps comparing Muslim majority countries with countries where it is least safe to be a woman:

[GALLERY=media, 7647]Secure-v7 by icehorse posted Aug 27, 2016 at 9:14 AM[/GALLERY]
 

sooda

Veteran Member
And its all over now, gone like Elvis and drive in movies.
Or your ancestors hunting wooley mammoths,
or whatever.

Totally irrelevant to the values and behaviour today.

China's determination to tamp down Islam
within its borders needs to be understood in this
context.


  • Education in Iraq is administered by the Ministry of Education. UNESCO reports that prior to the first Gulf War in 1991 Iraq had one of the best educational performances in the region. Primary school Gross Enrollment Rate was 100% and literacy levels were high. Since that time education has suffered as a result of global domination, sanctions, and instability.
Education in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Iraq
 

sooda

Veteran Member
While technically true that more males are literate than females, female literacy globally has risen from 79% to 89% from 1985 to 2014 while male literacy has risen from 89% to 95% in the same period.

This means that female literacy rates are improve at nearly double the male literacy rates.

Literacy rate of young men and women

Prosperity, stability and healthcare is a game changer for literacy for both males and females.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Reform and modernity are slow to come in the Muslim world. Its only been in the last decade that clerics have stated that much of what passes for Islam are just old tribal customs and traditions.

No true islamist?
 

Audie

Veteran Member
What are you talking about? Muslim Brotherhood is outlawed in Arabia since the early 1970s.

MB?? You've the most remarkable bent for tangents!

I was responding to your "saudi cletics"

True false or inbetween, still not welcome.
 
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