Early Muslim student missions to Europe transformed their home countries

Evidence

In the early years of the nineteenth century the first student missions were sent from Egypt, Turkey, and Iran to European schools—at first mainly military, then over the whole range of education. These few hundred students played an important role after their return to their own countries. They were the outriders of a vast army of eager young Muslims who lived for a while in a European city and, as is the way of students, learned more from their fellow-students than from their teachers. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1090

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• Foreign-educated Muslim students became vectors of Western ideas in their home countries (similarity 0.89)
• Muslim student missions to Europe began only in the early 1800s, for military modernization (similarity 0.87)
• Knowledge flow reversed from Islamic to Western centers by 1800. (similarity 0.84)
• Islamic states only authorized learning from Europe to better fight it. (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval European scholars studied at Arab Muslim universities in Spain and Sicily. (similarity 0.80)
• Post-imperial Muslim migration to Europe followed former colonial ties (similarity 0.80)
• European military instructors reframed Westerners as knowledge sources in Muslim eyes (similarity 0.80)
• Middle Eastern Christians led the first wave of Easterners studying in Europe (similarity 0.80)
• European language knowledge among Muslims shifted from despised to indispensable (similarity 0.79)