The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur

المدرسة السعدية بنيسابور

Nishapur

The Sa'diyya of Nishapur, built by the amir Nasr ibn Sabuktegin, brother of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna — cited with the Bayhaqiyya by al-Subki and al-Suyuti as proof that madrasas stood before Nizam al-Mulk.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Nishapur

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Overview

The Sadiyya madrasa in Nishapur was built by Prince Nasr ibn Sabuktigin, brother of the sultan Mahmud of Ghazna. 1

Cited as evidence

Al-Subki and al-Suyuti cited it, together with the Bayhaqiyya, to show that madrasas existed before Nizam al-Mulk. 1

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Nishapur
Related to
Mahmud of Ghazna

People and things also explored

The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· Battle of Nishapur (1038)· The Conquest of Naysabur· Mahmud of Ghazna Enters Rayy, 420· Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH)· Khayyam's algebra treatise· Al-Qadir's order of repentance for the Mu'tazila in Baghdad and Khurasan

Sources

  1. Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p.67
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The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur

The Bayhaqiyya of Nishapur, the earliest madrasa whose report is preserved in Islam: al-Maqrizi holds that the people of Nishapur were the first recorded as building a madrasa; al-Subki and al-Suyuti cited it to rebut al-Dhahabi's claim that Nizam al-Mulk founded the first madrasas, for it stood before Nizam al-Mulk was born.