Did you know the first university in the world is in Cairo, Egypt?

Question

The First book ever to have been printed in England by Caxton in 1477, is considered to be ‘ The Dictes And Sayings Of The Philosophers’, which was a TRANSLATION OF A POPULAR ARABIC COMPILATION ENTITLED ‘MUKHTAR AL- HIKAM WA MAHASIN AL-KALIM’ BY ABUL WAFA MUBASHIR IBN FATIK.

Answer 1

Yes I did know that the first books came fom Africa. Thanks for the knowledge...

Answer 2

Gotta symbolize and say - AUC. once you're coming from remote places, and you're no longer an Egyptian citizen, you will discover it very almost impossible to attend any of the Egyptian public universities. The forms is merely impenetrable. A colleague of mine tried to attend Cairo college some years in the past, and he merely stored getting surpassed around and in fact blown off. AUC has an exceedingly very common journalism application, and the hot director of the middle East study application merely arrived right here from Stanford. The language curriculum is striking - the U. S. government sends a number of its human beings right here to proceed their Arabic study.

Answer 3

The first book which Caxton produced in the Low Countries was The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, translated by himself from the French original of Raoul Lefèvre. He had begun the translation in 1469, taken it further at the behest of Margaret of York, the Duchess of Burgundy, continued the work in Ghent, and completed it in Cologne on 9 September 1471. This was the first book ever to be printed in English.

The book is a collection of stories very loosely based on the tales of the Trojan Wars. Caxton aimed for a court readership. Stories of war, knightly exploits and love were popular courtly reading. To ensure that his book also looked appealing to his readers, he had a new typeface created, closely based on the handwriting used in manuscripts made for the Burgundian court. In all probability the type was created by Johann Veldener, who had also made Caxton's Cologne type.

While in the Low Countries he printed another book in English, The Play of Chess. It was also translated by Caxton himself, from Jean de Vignay’s French translation of Jacobus de Cessolis’s Latin original. This is Caxton’s first dated work, finished 31 March 1474.

The Play of Chess was another text popular at the Burgundian court, an allegory of fixed social structures where each rank has its allotted role. This book was dedicated to George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV and, perhaps more importantly, of Margaret of York, who promoted the cause of her favourite brother, the ‘false, fleeting, perjured Clarence’, as he is described in Shakespeare’s Richard III. Not surprisingly, given Clarence’s fall from grace, the dedication does not appear in the second edition of the book dated c.1483.

Answer 4

And your point??? The printing press wasnt invented until that time. So, in England, they hand wrote books, just like in Egypt at that time.
Ive also noted that the Egyptians seem to be the only culture in teh world that devolved.....they started out making the perfect pyramids, and after that, all the successive ones are crumbling and falling down. Why is that???

Answer 5

Why do you use this place to preach false Muslim Propaganda?
Arabs had nothing to do with the the first printed book. You folks who agree with this NUT should check Google.
The first university was definately not in Egypt; check again.
Are you part of that Fanatic cult who wish to convert all people to your islamic stupidity????
Now go away!

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Depends on what you define a university to consist of ... if you are simply asking about an institution of higher learning, the first was in China. Sorry, but even Egypt was too slow.

Answer 8

Did you know that taking on the name and persona of a genuine, real-life legend is egotistical and presumptuous?

Couldn't you have the respect to at least refer to yourself as "Malcolm IX"??

Answer 9

Too bad they stopped producing anything but oil after 1300A.D.

Answer 10

Yes, I did know that.