Islamic Madrasa System

Type Object Region Islamic world Time c. 1067

The madrasa was a specialized educational institution in the Islamic world, supported by waqf (religious endowments) and teaching Sunni jurisprudence…

Timeline

c. 1067–1100Baghdad · BaghdadNizam al-Mulk founded the Nizamiyya madrasa in Baghdad, supporting teachers and students with waqf income and teaching Shafi'i jurisprudence, establishing the madrasa as the model of an official religious educational institution.
1221–1225Baghdad · BaghdadUnder Caliph al-Nasir, several new madrasas were built in Baghdad to counter Shi'i and heretical thought; madrasas, Sufi khanqahs, and mosques together formed the urban religious education network.
1226–1230Damascus · DamascusThe Ayyubid Sultanate vigorously built madrasas in Syria and Egypt, using the waqf system to stabilize legal education and the supply of judicial personnel; madrasas became an important tool for the sultanate in consolidating religious authority.

Sources

Madrasa https://www.britannica.com/topic/madrasah
Islamic Education: Its Traditions and Modernization into the Arab World — A. L. Tibawi (1972)