The Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Mulk founds the Nizamiyya in Baghdad, the head of a network of madrasas endowed to teach Shafi'i law and Ash'ari theology; the madrasa becomes the institutional form of Sunni learning, and al-Ghazali holds its chair a generation later.
Tagged: Ash'ari Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 1065 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Baghdad; today Baghdad, Iraq
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Ash'ari, Sunni Islam
- Key figures
- Nizam al-Mulk
Primary Sources
- Nizam al-Mulk, Siyasatnama
Secondary Sources
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
- Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2016)
Provenance: HIST-0230; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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