The Andalusian influence on educational curricula in the Central Maghreb (Al-Maghreb Al-Awsat) during the Zayani era. (633H-1235AD / 962H-1554AD)
Abstract
The Maghreb derived the origins of education and its curricula from the East since the dawn of the Islamic conquests of this country, but soon was affected by Andalusia due to the cultural disparity that arose between Andalusia and the Islamic Maghreb, as a result to the great progress experienced by the civilization of Andalusia in all fields, especially the scientific and intellectual aspect, And that political union which brought together the Maghreb and Andalusia in one political entity during the Almoravids and the Almohads eras, then the Andalusian migration to the Maghreb after the successive defeat of Andalusian cities by the hands of the Spanish in the midst of the Reconquista war launched by Spain in Andalusia and it was the share of the Central Maghreb in the Zayani era that a good number of jurists and scholars of Andalusia arrived to it, those latters settled in the major cities and played a pioneering role in developing educational curricula with the new methods they introduced to teaching, which had a prominent impact in the formation of an elite group of scholars They combined Maghrebian originality and Andalusian creativity, so we tried in this dissertation to shed light on the Andalusian influence on the educational aspect, especially with regard to educational curricula, methods, techniques and the books scheduled for teaching.
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