Timothy Gutmann

This is the personal scholarship page for Timothy Gutmann. My PhD in religion is from the University of Chicago. I focus on Islamic and East Asian thought.

My research and teaching also focus on diverse traditions of educational theory and practice, the politics of belonging and the minority question, and liberalism in contemporary society.

Having taught at the UChicago and elsewhere, I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. I split my time between Hattiesburg and Chicago.

On Mass Education and Islamic Thought

September 23, 2019  /  Timothy Gutmann

Here is an article I have out in this issue of Comparative Islamic Studies. It’s about the advent of mass education in Egypt in the late-19th century. Modern people assume that schooling is a universal human right as well as a civic and moral obligation. However, premodern Muslim theorists of education had ideas of knowledge and authority that were more diverse and less coercive.

If you can’t access the article for free, please email me at tgutmann [at] uchicago [dot] edu

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