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madrasa::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | madrasah |
| Type of | religious school |
the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students.
many madrasas in Bangladesh are supported with money from Saudi Arabia.
Examples of madrasa
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Government troops entered Mam Dherai and occupied an under-construction madrasa.
From the upi.com
They are unsophisticated and just plucked off a street in Pakistan or a madrasa.
From the economist.com
Taliban fighters in the a madrasa near the northern city of Kundoz, Afghanistan.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar attended this madrasa as a younger man.
From the nytimes.com
Finally, we decide to venture out and find a madrasa that might let us inside.
From the guardian.co.uk
As a child, Razib Khan spent several weeks studying in a Bangladeshi madrasa.
From the nytimes.com
Umar encouraged education to such an extent that every home became a madrasa.
From the en.wikipedia.org
So far, said the senior fighter, he is keeping the madrasa free of weapons.
From the heraldtribune.com
And in the heart of Athens there is a mosque and madrasa close to Monastiraki station.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan; "the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students"; "many madrasas in Bangladesh are supported with money from Saudi Arabia"
- Madrasa (Arabic: u0645u062Fu0631u0633u0629u200Eu200E, madrasah, pl. u0645u062Fu0627u0631u0633, madu0101ris, Turkish: Medrese) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion). The word is variously transliterated madrasah, madarasaa, medresa, madrassa, madraza, medrese, etc...
- Alternative spelling of madrasah
- (Medrese in Turkish.) Islamic school of sciences (theology, law, Koran, etc.) and lodgings for students.
- (Ar.) lit. school; In the Islamic tradition, the madrasa was the institution of learning that incorporated all subjecs such as the sciences, law, Qur'an, Hadith, and Arabic language, in such a way that maintained their interdependency on one another. ...
- A school or college, often founded through a waqf, designed to provide religious and legal education. Early madrasas were based on the combination of a mosque and a dormitory for students (ca. 1090 CE).
- (also madrassa) school for teaching of Islam. Controversial in recent times due to the implied connection between some madrasas and Islamic extremism
- Arabic word for a school that is often, but not necessarily, involved in the teaching of religion.
- A term derived from the Arabic word for Islamic institution of higher learning.
