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Mustansiriya Madrasa

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Mustansiriya Madrasa

Mustansiriya Madrasah is a historical building in Baghdad, Iraq. It was the premises of one of the oldest Islamic institutions of higher learning in the world, established in 1227 AD as a madrasah by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mustansir making it one of the oldest madrasahs in the world.