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Nizamiyyah institutes were the first well organized Universities in the Muslim World . The quality of education was the highest in the Islamic world, and they were even renowned in Europe. They were supported financially, politically, and spiritually by the royal establishment and the elite class. The most famous and celebrated of all the nizamiyyah schools was the Nizamiyyah of Baghdad (established 1065 ), where Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk appointed the distinguished philosopher and theologian, Al-Ghazali , as a professor. Persian poet Sa'di was a student of the Baghdad Nizamiyyah. Other nizamiyyah schools were located in Nishapur , Balkh , Herat and Isfahan . According to Mughatil Ibn Bakri , a staff member of the Nizamiyyah of Baghdad , Nizam al-Mulk himself was assassinated when he converted to Shi'a Islam after a Sunni -Shi'a debate held by the orders of Sultan Malik Shah I , who was also killed. SEE ALSO
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