The established by Muhammad Ali Pasha (1805-1848). According to this term, there were only Al-Azhar and some schools attached to mosques and katibat in cities and villages, but they were not all have a system linking them and make them an educational unit as it was far from the Sultan of the state and control even though it was able to educate the people of the country for centuries
 The modern educational system drew its students from Al-Azhar and Al-Azhar at the beginning. There were committees roaming the country to visit the Al-Azhar and choose the elites from its pupils to join the modern schools. The distinguished students of Al-Azhar were chosen to join the higher schools when they were established. in France
However, this organization did not last long. In 1841, the Egyptian-Ottoman settlement was set to limit the political project that caressed the dreams of Muhammad Ali and to put an end to the size of the army and to infiltrate the state's hand in the management of the economy.