Research Paper On Ahmed Fahmy
Church Misiory 78:2 (June 2009), 309 326. I 2009, American Society orChurch History doi:10.I017/S000964070900050X Printed in the USA
An Egyptian in China: Ahmed Fahmy and the Making of 'World Christianities "
HEATHER J, SHARKEY
"In my early years in Changehow there were still some of Dr. Fahmy's students in practice in the town, and plenty of people, patients and church members, who remembered him with much gratitude and affection. 1 think you will be glad to know that ... there will also be people in Changehow who never knew Dr. Fahmy but who nevertheless will be giving thanks for the work which he started and from which they and many others have benelited over the years." —D. J. Harman to Mrs. Johnston {granddaughter of Ahmed Fahmy), …show more content…
From American Presbyterian missionary sourees, ineluding the diaries of missionaries who described his eonversion as it unfolded, we can gather that he came from an upstanding and prosperous Muslim family ihat owned estates in Minya (Middle Bgypt) and a residenee in Cairo. Ahmed himself had studied for a time at al-Azhar, the venerable Sunni Muslim university mosque, and had some knowledge of English and French. His father held the respected post of ehief clerk in a Muslim court of appeal. Ahmed had two brothers, named Muhammad and Mahmud, and all three of them had attended the American mission boys' school in Cairo: this would have been in the 1870s, when wealthy Muslim students were beginning to attend missionary schools in greater numbers, encouraged by parents who wanted sons and daughters to icam European languages and gain exposure to Western ideas.''' One of Ahmed's brothers was even working for the American missionaries in Minya at the time Ahmed professed his Christian belief Aboul Ahmed's mother, the missionary sources only say that she grieved upon his baptism and pled with him to reeant.^" In 1875. when Ahmed was fifteen, the mission hired him to teach Arabic to one ofthe new female missionaries., Miss Margaret Smith (1847- 1932),
An Egyptian in China: Ahmed Fahmy and the Making of 'World Christianities "
HEATHER J, SHARKEY
"In my early years in Changehow there were still some of Dr. Fahmy's students in practice in the town, and plenty of people, patients and church members, who remembered him with much gratitude and affection. 1 think you will be glad to know that ... there will also be people in Changehow who never knew Dr. Fahmy but who nevertheless will be giving thanks for the work which he started and from which they and many others have benelited over the years." —D. J. Harman to Mrs. Johnston {granddaughter of Ahmed Fahmy), …show more content…
From American Presbyterian missionary sourees, ineluding the diaries of missionaries who described his eonversion as it unfolded, we can gather that he came from an upstanding and prosperous Muslim family ihat owned estates in Minya (Middle Bgypt) and a residenee in Cairo. Ahmed himself had studied for a time at al-Azhar, the venerable Sunni Muslim university mosque, and had some knowledge of English and French. His father held the respected post of ehief clerk in a Muslim court of appeal. Ahmed had two brothers, named Muhammad and Mahmud, and all three of them had attended the American mission boys' school in Cairo: this would have been in the 1870s, when wealthy Muslim students were beginning to attend missionary schools in greater numbers, encouraged by parents who wanted sons and daughters to icam European languages and gain exposure to Western ideas.''' One of Ahmed's brothers was even working for the American missionaries in Minya at the time Ahmed professed his Christian belief Aboul Ahmed's mother, the missionary sources only say that she grieved upon his baptism and pled with him to reeant.^" In 1875. when Ahmed was fifteen, the mission hired him to teach Arabic to one ofthe new female missionaries., Miss Margaret Smith (1847- 1932),