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On the first of Muharram 306 the physician Sinan b. Thabit opened the Bimaristan al-Sayyida, which she had established in Suq Yahya on the Tigris; he took his seat in it and organized the physicians, and its monthly upkeep was six hundred dinars ¹.

The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad

The Nizamiyya of Baghdad, first and most famous of the madrasas founded by the vizier Nizam al-Mulk al-Tusi: building began in 457 and sisters rose at Nishapur, Isfahan, Herat, Basra, Mosul and Amid; the Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni then Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi taught in it, and it mothered the Sunni institutional model that the later madrasas of Baghdad followed — the caliphs prayed there and Nizam al-Mulk himself visited to inspect its library.

Bimaristan al-Sayyida

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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad