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Nizamiyya

Today it means: Any one of educational institutions founded in the 11th century by Nizam al-Mulk, vizier of the Saljuq Empire Full definition →

Arabic نِظَامِيَّة

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Arabic · borrowed fromنِظَامِيَّة
English todayNizamiyya

Borrowed from Arabic نِظَامِيَّة (niẓāmiyya), from نِظَام [الْمُلْك] (“Nizam [al-Mulk]”) + ـِيَّة (-iyya). Ellipsis of مَدْرَسَة نِظَامِيَّة (madrasa niẓāmiyya, literally “Nizamian school”).

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