Al-Azhar education promised little career future in 1860s Egypt

Evidence

In 1863, at the age of eighteen, he left Alexandria for Cairo to train at al-Azhär University. However, like `Alï Mubärak years before, he saw little future in such an education, left the university, and went instead to work for the telegraph service. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 442

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