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In 276 word came that a mound on Nahr al-Sarat called Tall Bani Shaqiq had split open, revealing a stone slab carved with unreadable writing and seven graves holding seven intact bodies in fresh shrouds breathing the scent of musk — one bearing a wound's trace in his side, his lip moist as though he had just drunk water 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 Seven Bodies at the Mound of Bani Shaqiq

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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad