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The Atabakiyya Madrasa was founded in the thirteenth century by Turkan Khatun, daughter of the Zengid ruler Izz al-Din Mas'ud of Mosul and wife of the Ayyubid…
The Atabakiyya Madrasa was founded in the thirteenth century by Turkan Khatun, daughter of the Zengid ruler Izz al-Din Mas'ud of Mosul and wife of the Ayyubid al-Ashraf Musa. It was a Shafi'i madrasa and is an example of the many schools endowed by the women of the Ayyubid house. The madrasa stands in the old madrasas quarter of al-Salihiyya at the foot of Mount Qasioun, beside the Murshidiyya madrasa and the Ashrafiyya Dar al-Hadith. It is now used as a mosque, and its carved stone portal is still in place.