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Main page Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad (Arabic,‫) اﻟﻣدرﺳﺔ اﻟﻧظﺎﻣﯾﺔ‬, one of the first nezamiyehs,[1] was established in 1065. In
Contents July 1091, Nizam al-Mulk appointed the 33-year-old Al-Ghazali as a professor of the school.[2] Offering free
Featured content education,[3] it has been described as the "largest university of the Medieval world".[4] Ibn Tumart, founder of
Current events the Berber Almohad dynasty, reputedly attended the school and studied under al-Ghazali.[5] Nizam al-Mulk's
Random article son-in-law Mughatil ibn Bakri was also employed by the school. In 1096, when al-Ghazali left the nezamiyeh, it
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housed 3000 students.[6] In 1116, Muhammad al-Shahrastani taught at the nezamiyeh.[7] In the 1170s,
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statesman Beha Ud-Din taught at the nezamiyeh, before he moved on to teach in Mosul.
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Persian poet Sa'di studied at the nezamiyeh from 1195 until 1226, when he set out on a thirty-year journey, he
Help was also among those who witnessed first-hand accounts of its destruction by Mongol Ilkhanate invaders led by
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Hulagu during the Sack of Baghdad in the year 1258. Sa'di recalls clearly his days of studies at the Al-
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Recent changes Nizamiyya of Baghdad: A fellow-student at Nizamiah displayed malevolence towards me, and I informed my
Contact page tutor, saying: "Whenever I give more proper answers than he the envious fellow becomes offended."
The Professor replied: The envy of thy friend is not agreeable to thee, but I know not who told thee that back-
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biting was commendable. If he seek perdition through the path of envy, thou wilt join him by the path of
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Upload file The curriculum initially focused on religious studies, Islamic law, Arabic literature, and arithmetic, and later
Special pages extended to history, mathematics, the physical sciences, and music.[8]
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‫اﻟﻌرﺑﯾﺔ‬ Makdisi, George: "Madrasa and University in the Middle Ages", Studia Islamica, No. 32 (1970), pp. 255–264
বাংলা 1. ^ Al-Ahram Weekly | Baghdad Supplement | They came to Baghdad : Its famous names Archived 2007-04-17
‫ﻓﺎرﺳﯽ‬ at the Wayback Machine.
िह दी 2. ^ http://www.ghazali.org/works/gz-repent.doc
Bahasa Indonesia 3. ^ Black, A. A History of Islamic Political Thought – From the Prophet to the Present. Cambridge: Edinburgh
Русский University Press, 2001.
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4. ^ "Metapress | Discover More" (PDF). Metapress. 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
5. ^ http://www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/facultypages/Almohaden2005.pdf
6. ^ "Fastupdate sheet" . www.ghazali.org. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
7. ^ Shahrastani
8. ^ B.G. Massialas & S.A. Jarrar (1987), "Conflicts in education in the Arab world: The present challenge" , Arab
Studies Quarterly: "Subjects such as history, mathematics, physical sciences, and music were added to the
curriculum of Al-Nizamiyah at a later time."
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