madrassa,
madraseh,
medresseh
Islamic theological and legal place of instruction, usually with a court with iwan, accommodation, and study-cells. The grandest madrasas resembled four-iwan mosque plans, with cells on two storeys ranged around the court (e.g. Madrasa al-Nuriya al-Kubra, Damascus, Syria (1171–2), and the Madrasas of Ulughbeg (1417–20), Samarkand, Uzbekistan). In some cases the open court was replaced by a smaller covered, domed space (e.g. the Inje Minare Madrasa, Konya, Turkey (c.1260–5), and in others they were part of much larger complexes (e.g. the Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey (1550–7), by Sinan. The Madrasa Madar-I-Shah, Isfahan, Iran (1706–14), was a late and very beautiful example of the fouriwan madrasa, complete with high, pointed domes, and two-storey arcades and a garden-court crossed by axial canals (the true paradise garden).
Bibliography
- Blair & Bloom (1994)
- Hillenbrand (1994)
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