بناء المدرسة المستنصرية ببغداد

بناء المدرسة المستنصرية ببغداد

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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.