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madrasah

American

[muh-dras-uh] / məˈdræs ə /

Or madrasa,

noun

Islam.

a school or college, especially a school attached to a mosque where young men study theology.

madrasah British

/ məˈdrɛseɪ, ˈmɑːdræsə, məˈdræsə /

noun

Islam an educational institution, particularly for Islamic religious instruction

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Etymology

Origin of madrasah

From Arabic

Example Sentences

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More raids and arrests followed, and these led police to the Sungei Tiram madrasah, which was shut down in May 2001.

From Time Magazine Archive

The four men used the madrasah as a base for recruiting their earliest disciples.

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Listening to these kids talk, an American might be tempted to think they attended some Middle Eastern madrasah or had been reading Noam Chomsky.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mostly silent, nameless gentleman sitting across from us piped up: "There has never been an extremist graduate from this madrasah, and there never will be."

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This is one of the most important mosques of any age, and is the most characteristic of the madrasah form.

From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes

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