Why Al-Mustansiriyah Educational Platform?

Al-Mustansiriyah School

“The First University of the Four Schools of Thought in the Islamic World”

It is the jewel of the schools and universities of the Abbasid capital, Baghdad, and the most important. It was founded during the Abbasid era in Baghdad (631 AH / 1233 AD) by Caliph Al-Mustansir Billah, the thirty-seventh Abbasid Caliph, and was known by his name.

It is the first university in the Islamic world to be concerned with the study of the sciences of the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the schools of jurisprudence, the sciences of Arabic, philosophy, mathematics, the division of taxes and inheritances, animal benefits, medicine and pharmacy, and the preservation of health and the correction of bodies at the same time. It is also the first Islamic university in which jurisprudential studies were combined according to the four Islamic schools (Hanafi, Shafi’i, Maliki and Hanbali) in one building, which is the School of Jurisprudence. This was not the case before it, as each of the schools before it specialized in teaching a specific school of these schools.