Ghiyathiyyah madrasas Sultan
Ghiyathuddin Azam Shah founded two institutes in
Makkah and
Madinah during his reign in Bengal from 1390 to 1411. The Madrasah as-Sultaniyyah al-Ghiyathiyyah al-Banjaliyah () of Makkah was located near the gate of
Umm Hani of
Masjid al-Haram. Construction began in
Ramadan 1411 CE and was completed in 1412 CE. It was the first madrasa in Makkah to teach all four
madhhabs. The
Hanafi and
Shafiʽi school had twenty students each, while the
Hanbali and
Maliki schools had ten students each. The contemporary Arab scholar
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi worked in this madrasa as teacher of Maliki
fiqh and other teachers, included Jamal ad-Din Qarshi, Shihab ad-Din Saghani,
Muhy ad-Din Fasi, Abul Hasan al-Haskafi and the Shibi family. The Ghiyathiyyah of Madinah Tayyibah was situated near Bab as-Salam in
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi. The Sultan also commissioned money to buy property for establishing and to maintain both of these institutes. He sent a lot of money to repair the Arafat Stream. However, the
Sharif of Makkah,
Hasan ibn Ajlan, decided to use the money given by the Sultan for another project instead. The madrasas were said to be the best institutions in the region during this period. ==See also==