Dr. Najat Ali Mohammed al-Tamimi, a professor from the department of Islamic civilization and antiquities at the College of Islamic Sciences gave a field lecture entitled “Abbasid architecture in Baghdad: Mustansiriyah School as a model”. She showed that the Mustansiriyah School is one of the buildings dating back to the Abbasid era (631 A.H), named after its founder, the Abbasid caliph Al-Mustansir Billah, who was established on the eastern side of Baghdad on the bank of the Tigris River, one of the most important architectural remnants that exists to this day began to build the school in (625 A.H) and complete its construction in (631 A.H).
The building of Al-Mustansiriyah School was taken over by the Minister of State Moayad Eddin Ibin Al-Alqami. This school is considered as the oldest and largest university in the Islamic world where it teaches: the sciences of the Holy Quran, jurisprudence, hadith, Arabic language, medicine, as well as mathematics, and it is the first school dedicated to teaching the jurisprudence of the four doctrines of the Sunnis and Jamaa’ah, where the desire of the Caliph Al-Mustansir Billah was to collect these doctrines in one place, and to increase their convergence and protection of the state as well as its openness to others.
