Egypt’s medical education was fully Arabized within a generation

Evidence

Eventually this problem was surmounted. On his return from Paris Shaykh Rifā‘a al-Ṭahṭāwī was intended to be attached to the School of Medicine in Abū-Za‘bal and to have twenty students working with him on translating medical books from French into Arabic and to compile a French–Arabic dictionary. When it was deemed more suitable to employ Shaykh Rifā‘a elsewhere, the first batch of graduates of the Medical School were themselves employed to teach another generation of students, and this time instruction was conducted in Arabic. In due time Arabic lexicons were compiled and medical books were translated and even written in Arabic. Eventually the entire process of medical education was Arabized. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1127

Categorization

• SEED: The Arabization of modern medicine — from French lectures through simultaneous translation to Arabic originals — is a striking trajectory worth an article on how scientific modernity gets linguistically indigenized.