Suyufiyya Girls' School

Suyufiyya Girls' School or al-Madrasa al-Suyufiyya was a school for girls in Egypt.

Founded in 1873, it was Egypt's first officially sponsored girls' school.^[1]^[2] It had the backing of Khedive Ismail's third wife, Jashem Afet Hanum. Prior to its foundation, there had been the special medical school School for hakımāt, as well as a school from 1853 reserved only for Coptic Christian girls.^[3]

In the late 1870s it merged with another girls' school for poorer students, al-Qarabiyya, leading to a drop in enrollment as upper-class parents abandoned the school. In 1889 the Ministry of Education tried to revive the school under the name al-Saniyya, but parents seem to have objected to mixing better-off and poorer students at the school.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Hoda A. Yousef (2016). Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930. Stanford University Press. pp. 54–5. ISBN 978-0-8047-9921-8.
^ Nick Posegay, Following the Links in T-S NS 192.11: A Qur’anic Exercise from a Cairene Public School, Cambridge University Library, January 2020.
^ Rubin, Barry, ed. (2012). The Middle East: A Guide to Politics, Economics, Society and Culture. ISBN 978-0765680945.

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[Yousef2016-1] Hoda A. Yousef (2016). Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930. Stanford University Press. pp. 54–5. ISBN 978-0-8047-9921-8.

[2] Nick Posegay, Following the Links in T-S NS 192.11: A Qur’anic Exercise from a Cairene Public School, Cambridge University Library, January 2020.

[Rubin-3] Rubin, Barry, ed. (2012). The Middle East: A Guide to Politics, Economics, Society and Culture. ISBN 978-0765680945.

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