Tarek Osman describes the career of the late 19th-century Islamic scholar Jamaluddin Al-Afghani as part of his series of articles on the makers of modern Egypt The last quarter of the 19th century ...

was established 24 years ago on the premises of Al-Asif Square, Sohrab Ghoth. An elderly Afghan refugee, Syed Hadi Hashmi, opened “Syed Jamaluddin Afghani School” in1992 and its management ...