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Tuk greatest Mussulman educational centro in Noithern Africa is the University at (iarcuin, in Moiocco. The students number about 700 and there are forty professors. Work begins between half-patt 2 and 5 in the morning, nccoidin^ to the season. The fh\*t instruction consists of comments on the Koian. At sunrise the second batch of piofcssors - about) a dozen or so— discourse on the law and dogma. In the afternoon grammar and rhetoric are taught, and, later, logic, astronomy, arithmetic, geography, history, Mussulman literature, and tho science of talismanic numbers or tho determination by calculation of the influence of angels, spirits and stars on futuie events. The fore-determination of tho conqueror and conquered in a coming war or battle seems to boa special branch. There is the greatest difliculty in obtaining a professor intimate with the principles of the science in its entirety. There are no examination?. Every professor U supposed to know those among his hearers who are worthy of diplomas. The diploma 3 arc vory highly \nlued and gi^e the holdeis gieat piestige in the Moslem woild.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 400, 7 September 1889, Page 6
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179UNKNOWN Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 400, 7 September 1889, Page 6
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