بناء المدرسة المستنصرية ببغداد
بناء المدرسة المستنصرية ببغداد
c. 1234 CE · 631 AH
Al-Mustansir's madrasa on Tigris's east bank — 'none finer on earth', says Ibn Wasil — four chairs for the four madhhabs, a bimaristan, a fuqaha' kitchen, a cold-water chamber, stipends of mats, oil, paper, ink and a dinar a month, and a bath 'never done before'. Al-Dhahabi: its waqf yielded seventy thousand mithqals a year; built 625–631, stocked with a hundred and sixty camel-loads of choice books, two hundred and forty-eight jurists with masters of hadith, grammar, medicine and inheritance-law, thirty orphans; opened on a Thursday in Rajab before the judges and notables 1.
At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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In time
Overview
The caliph al-Mustansir billah founded the Mustansiriyya madrasa on the Tigris on the eastern side of Baghdad. Building began in 625 AH and was completed in 631 AH. 2
Its description
Al-Suyuti quotes Ibn Wasil saying that nothing finer had been built on the face of the earth, and none with more endowments. It had four teachers for the four schools of law, a hospital, a kitchen for the jurists, a bath, and allowances of mats, oil, paper and ink, and each jurist received a dinar a month. 2
What al-Dhahabi reports
The income of its endowment reached about seventy thousand mithqals a year. Books were moved into it in a hundred and sixty loads, and its jurists numbered two hundred and forty-eight, with teachers of hadith, grammar, medicine and inheritance, and thirty orphans. 2
It was opened on a Thursday in Rajab in the presence of judges, teachers and notables. 2
Connections
- Had participant
- المستنصر بالله منصور بن الظاهر
People and things also explored
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 702-704
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.702-704
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islam.museum contributors. “بناء المدرسة المستنصرية ببغداد”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/mustansiriyya-founding/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.