ABSTRACT
In relating Ṭāhā Ḥusain's intellectual development into a cultural mediator between East and West, one can easily be tempted to stress the Western-oriented phases in his education at the old Egyptian University in Cairo (where he was first initiated into modern methods of research) and at the Sorbonne in Paris. The instruction that Ṭāhā had previously received at the Azhar would then be neglected, glossed over or dismissed as "traditional" or "scholastic".
