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In 420 giant hail fell at al-Nu'maniyya in Iraq — each stone a pound and more; one was said to exceed a qintar. It lay half a cubit deep on the ground like a crouching bull — the like unheard of in history — and uprooted the mighty trunks of olives and apples 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.

The Great Hailstorm of Iraq

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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad