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In 330 a kurr of wheat reached 210 dinars and a kurr of barley 120 — then wheat sold at 316; the weak ate carrion, the dearth persisted, deaths multiplied, the people were worn by sickness and poverty, the roads were cut, burial fell to the low-born, and folk forsook amusements and games ¹.

The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad

The Nizamiyya of Baghdad, first and most famous of the madrasas founded by the vizier Nizam al-Mulk al-Tusi: building began in 457 and sisters rose at Nishapur, Isfahan, Herat, Basra, Mosul and Amid; the Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni then Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi taught in it, and it mothered the Sunni institutional model that the later madrasas of Baghdad followed — the caliphs prayed there and Nizam al-Mulk himself visited to inspect its library.

The Great Famine in Baghdad, 330

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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad