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or madrasa
also madrassah
or madrasah
as in yeshivah
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The regime is subsidizing hundreds of madrassas — religious schools — for boys and men.
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Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
Akhunzada ran a madrassa, or a religious school, in Pakistan’s border regions before his 2016 rise as the new Taliban leader.
—Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
Taliban leaders often lived in the safe haven of neighboring Pakistan, while the Taliban also recruited suicide bombers from Pakistani madrassas.
—Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
Sheltering in a fortified madrassa close to the Umayyad Mosque, Ibn Khaldun realized that the city would soon fall.
—Adam Kuper, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
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Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
Akhunzada ran a madrassa, or a religious school, in Pakistan’s border regions before his 2016 rise as the new Taliban leader.
—Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
Taliban leaders often lived in the safe haven of neighboring Pakistan, while the Taliban also recruited suicide bombers from Pakistani madrassas.
—Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
Sheltering in a fortified madrassa close to the Umayyad Mosque, Ibn Khaldun realized that the city would soon fall.
—Adam Kuper, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
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“Madrassa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madrassa. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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