The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West

George Makdisi

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Contents

Chapter 1: Institutions

I. The Rise of the Schools of Law

II. Typology of Institutions of Learning

III. The Law of Waqf

Chapter 2: Instruction

I. Divisions of the Fields of Knowledge

II. Organisation of Learning

III. The Methodology of Learning

Chapter 3: The Scholastic Community

I. Professors

II. Students

III. Posts, Occupations, Functions

Chapter 4: Islam and the Christian West

I. Introductory Remarks

II. Institutions

III. Instruction

IV. The Scholastic Community

Conclusion