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The madrasah functioned until the 20th century as a theological seminary and law school, with a curriculum centred on the Qurʾān and the Hadith. Arabic grammar and literature, mathematics, logic, and, in some cases, natural science were studied in madrasahs in addition to Islamic theology and law. Tuition was free, and food, lodging, and ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Madrasa (/ m ə ˈ d r æ s ə /, also US: /-r ɑː s-/, UK: / ˈ m æ d r ɑː s ə /; Arabic: مدرسة [mædˈræ.sæ, ˈmad.ra.sa] ⓘ, pl. مدارس, madāris), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.
- History of The Madrasa
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- Turkey’s Shift to Religious Schools
Madrasas have a long and rich history. After the birth of Islam in the seventh century, Muslims who wanted a religious education joined study circlesin mosques where teachers provided instruction. Over the next 400 years, additional centers of learning, founded and endowed by rulers, high officials and wealthy members of the community, met in publi...
Today, madrasas are most dominant in Pakistan – 20,000 are registeredand thousands more are unregistered – but the number of madrasas is growing in many parts of the world. In Egypt, they increased from 1,855 to 4,314 between 1986 and 1996. In Mali, one out of four primary school children attended madrasas during 2005. In India, where 14 people out...
To return to Turkey, technically speaking, this country eliminated madrasas nearly 100 years ago. In 1924, the first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, replaced madrasaswith nonreligious schools based on a Western educational model or converted them into schools called Imam Hatip for the training of Muslim preachers. However, when Erdogan assumed po...
- Myriam Renaud
Jan 23, 2008 · History. As an institution of learning, the madrasa is centuries old. One of the first established madrasas, called the Nizamiyah, was built in Baghdad during the eleventh century A.D. Offering food, lodging, and a free education, madrasas spread rapidly throughout the Muslim world, and although thei r curricula varied from place to place, it
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In India, the word madrasa is used for an educational institution where education-related to Islam is imparted along with many other modern subjects like English, Hindi, a state language, Science, Social Studies and Mathematics. The curriculum of madrasas may vary according to their affiliation. History of Madrasa Education in India
Documentary evidence and architectural remnants trace the origin of these madrasas to Khurasan and Transoxania in the 10th century, as well as in the region now known as northern Iran. Educational stratification was the direct result of the emergence of these madrasas. They provided higher religious and secular education, while elementary ...
Education in arts and sciences was often directed by religious institutions in the Middle Ages. Mosques, maktabs (elementary religious schools) and madrasas (secondary religious schools) were essential in the education of children in the medieval Caliphate, and monasteries fulfilled a similar role in Tibet after the arrival of Buddhism in the 7th century.
