Al-Mustansiriya Madrasa

Baghdad Governorate · Iraq

Al-Mustansiriya Madrasa, Iraq
Photo: Taisir Mahdi, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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October to April
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One of the oldest surviving universities in the world, a thirteenth-century Abbasid madrasa on the Tigris in old Baghdad. Its brick courtyard and carved facades reflect medieval Islamic learning.

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