xiv AMERICAN 
HOMES AND “GAR DEMS 
October, 191 
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN THE 
ORIENT 
N the wonderful contrast with our most 
distinguished seats of education, E1 
Azhar, the celebrated university of Cairo, 
the greatest and oldest high school of the 
Mohammedan world, recently passed the 
thousandth year of its existence. But un- 
like our universities, of which the sys- 
tematic management is always a brilliant 
phase of their progress, this educational 
focus of the Orient is also a remarkable 
example of a really unrestricted, perfect 
academic freedom. All tribes, peoples 
and races are represented in the body of 
students embraced by the university, the 
number of the last never being the same, 
but fluctuating between 2,000 and 3,000. 
This extraordinary alma mater, it must 
be said, can awaken and retain the affec- 
tion and loyalty of students with greater 
ease than any other university, for in 
very numerous instances the object of the 
avowed disciples of her particular cycle 
of sciences who enter the consecrated 
halls of El Azhar is not merely to attend 
the lectures, their residence and work be- 
tween the walls of the university being 
really a portrayal of their whole lives. 
Even the barbers have a permanent sta- 
tion in the great vestibule, so that these 
special students do not need to leave the 
university in any event. 
The heart of the institution is the great 
court which is splendidly paved. Upon it 
scores of little doors open and loggias and 
balustrades in great number abound. As 
an architectural entity it is a picturesque 
oriental masterpiece. Those students who 
with least case can pay for a small cell in 
the university incur no expense for the 
spaces on which they sleep under the 
roofs of the great open social hall. There 
is no fee for matriculation, and there is 
no obligation to pass any examina- 
tion. Unsubjected to tests and omit- 
ting any stated conclusion of study 
there go forth from El Azhar orators, 
lawyers, physicians and poets, many a 
man among them having lived for decades 
within the precincts of this alma mater. 
The teachers and professors receive no 
salary or other strict compensation; they 
live on the voluntary dole and presents of 
their pupils, on the meager price of pri- 
vate instruction, and on the fees they re- 
ceive for copying old books and manu- 
scripts. There is no faculty that calls the 
professors, no authority that appoints 
them; every pupil of the university can 
establish himself after a few years of 
study independently as a teacher in the 
halls of El Azhar, begin to lecture and 
to teach the truth as he knows it or be- 
lieves he knows it. And under such ap- 
parent laxity of administration the great 
university continues an existence that is 
by no means precarious. In the opinion 
of its staunch friends, of its beneficiaries, 
and of the young men who are waiting to 
throng to its halls, its authority and im- 
portance are more obvious and brilliant 
and impressive now than ever before. 
The zeal and loyalty of the students 
who are leaving it at frequent and irreg- 
ular intervals are incomparable, and are 
the source of a later rivalry, in business 
and profession, of such strangeness, pro- 
digious keenness and persistency as must 
astound the occidental student who may 
be quite unfamiliar with oriental customs 
and who is graduated only in strict ac- 
cordance with the sheer system that pre- 
vails during an arduous curriculum, and 
is, therefore, much more evenly equipped 
for frank competition. 
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