Dirasat Mosiliya

This research aims at showing the educational conditions in Mosul and the neighbouring countrysides through studying examples from intermediate schools for boys depending on files of these schools which contain vast information about the staff of the schools , the number of the students , the circumstances in which these schools were established and the problems which faced during the establishment and providing the essential requirements , besides the supervisors impressions about the educational process and the way of improving it . All these things together reflect the reality of education during 1958-1968 depending on documents for the first time.

The commercial relations between Mosul and Syria has been characterized as having a high level . Alippo represented the medium of Mosul trade with Kurdistan in the Ottoman time .
The research consists of eight axes . The first section tackles the commercial relation between Mosul and Syria that was known by prosperity and, nevertheless, subject to depression during the royal time namely after 1921 and before 1927 .
Due to the political disputes and turmoils , the ways of land transportion were closed . In the two world wars the commercial relation wit nessed a great improvement .
As for the second axis , it is entilled " Exporting cattles to Syria" . Exporting cattles was represented by exporting sheep , and cows to Syria and Palestine . The third axis tackles smuggling or the so called unwatched trade . The fourth axis deals with the role of Mosul Trade chamber as the most important commercial ring in the development of the commercial activity .
The fifth axis hardles the role of Mosul trade chamber in encouraging importation . The sixth axis handles transporting pilgrims to kaba via Sham .
As for the seventh axis , it tackes the role of the mercantile families in Mosul and Syria , in commerce . The eighth axis deals with the role of the Arabic companies which took Aleppo as a centre for commercial activity between Mosul and Syria including transferring , transportation besides clearance and transit .

The Islamic Thought wittnest important development in Geography . May Ibn-hauhal- in his book " Surat – Al- Arth " , and Al-Makdisi –in his book " Ihsan Al-Takasim Fi Maarifat Al-Akaleem " are the best sample in Islamic Geography thought . So that this research sheds linght on the conditions of Mosul according the methodology perception in the two books above .

The study tried to recognize the role of mosulian families to orient their children to follow a culture that suits the arabic and islamic community and rejects other forms of foreign cultures . The present study explore the opinion of mosulian families of how to deal with concepts concerning cultural transportation , methods of education , the personal role of parents in educating their children , the sex discrimination among members of the family , the religious principals and the political orientation . The study reached a conclusion that the role of msulian families in cultural development is positive , with the exception of their negative role in political affairs .

The present study tried to evaluate the primary education under the present situation by taking points of view of the families of both student and teacher the research depends on social surveying style using questioners as a mean of collecting information's . IT was noticed that the primary education showed remarkable retardation under the influence of these situations.