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The Nizamiyya of Baghdad opens

459 AH · 1067 CE

Baghdad بغداد

The Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Mulk opens the Nizamiyya college in Baghdad, part of a network of colleges teaching Shafi'i law and Ash'ari theology. Al-Ghazali later teaches here.

al-Mustansiriyyah, an Abbasid college of 1233, Baghdad
al-Mustansiriyyah, an Abbasid college of 1233, Baghdad
Photo: Taisir Mahdi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Sources

  • Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-A'yan (Biography of Nizam al-Mulk)
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.