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Nizamiyya College System
The Nizamiyya colleges were an Islamic higher education network founded by Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Mulk in Baghdad and elsewhere in the 11th century, …
Timeline
- 1161–1170Baghdad · IraqIn West Asia, where the Abbasid nominal caliphate coexisted with Seljuk, Zengid, and other regimes, the Nizamiyya colleges continued to offer Shafi'i jurisprudence and logic and rhetoric as core courses, supplying talent to local administration and religious institutions.
- 1165–1170Damascus · SyriaColleges in Damascus and elsewhere maintained teaching through the succession of Zengid and subsequent Ayyubid regimes; scholars participated in anti-crusade jihad discourse and local governance through the college network.
Sources
- Madrasa https://www.britannica.com/topic/madrasah