The Nizamiyya of Nishapur

النظامية بنيسابور

c. 1067 CE · 459 AH – c. 1067 CE · c. 459 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Nishapur

The vizier Nizam al-Mulk founded the Nishapur Nizamiyya about 459/1067 within his network of colleges where the Shafi'i and hadith imams taught 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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1050106010701080 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Nishapur

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نظام الملك وزير ألب أرسلان

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The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· The sakk and the hawala· The killing of Sultan Alp Arslan and the accession of Malikshah· Battle of Nishapur (1038)· The Conquest of Naysabur

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  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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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.