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Islamic madrasa

Type Object Region Islamic world Time 1231–1240

The madrasa, a religious and secular institution attached to mosques or freestanding, funded by waqf endowments, taught Qur'an, hadith, jurisprudence…

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  1. 1067Baghdad · BaghdadNizam al-Mulk founded the Nizamiyya madrasa in Baghdad, supporting teachers and students with waqf endowments and establishing the institutional paradigm for Islamic higher learning that influenced madrasa layouts thereafter.
  2. 1231–1240Damascus · DamascusAyyubid sultans established numerous madrasas in Damascus, Cairo, and elsewhere, flourishing in jurisprudence and medical education; the madrasa system became the standard institutional form for knowledge transmission and judicial certification in the Islamic world.

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