Nizamiyya madrasa network

Name: Nizamiyya madrasa network
Start: 1090
End: 1099

Type Event Region Western Asia Time 1090–1099

In the 1090s the Nizamiyya madrasa network, promoted by Nizam al-Mulk and expanded across the Islamic world, reached its zenith as Sunni institutions…

Timeline

1090–1095Baghdad · MesopotamiaUsing the Nizamiyya of Baghdad as a model, Nizam al-Mulk endowed religious colleges at key points across the empire, strengthening Sunni orthodoxy and the alliance of empire and ideology.
1095–1099Nishapur · KhorasanNizamiyya madrasas in Khorasan, Syria and Egypt gathered jurists, supplied talent to the Seljuk bureaucracy, and became lecture centers for later masters such as al-Ansari.

Sources

Makdisi, George. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West — George Makdisi (1981)