High Middle Ages · Middle East · Culture
1065
Madrasa Nizamiyya founded in Baghdad
1065
The Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Mulk endowed a great college in Baghdad to train Sunni Shafi'i scholars. Al-Ghazali would later teach there. The Nizamiyya system of state-funded religious colleges across Iran and Iraq shaped Islamic education for centuries and gave the Seljuks an ideological counterweight to Fatimid Shiism. The curriculum emphasized jurisprudence, theology, and Arabic grammar, producing the administrative class that held the empire together.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.