Many scholars (including Makdisi) have argued that early medieval universities were influenced by the religious madrasahs in Al-Andalus, the Emirate of Sicily, and the Middle East (during the Crusades). Other scholars see this argument as overstated. Lowe and Yasuhara have recently drawn on the well-documented influences of scholarship from the Islamic world on the universities of Western Europe to call for a reconsideration of the development of higher education, turning away from a concern with local institutional structures to a broader consideration within a global context.
কোন উল্লেখযোগ্য মধ্যপ্রাচ্য সংঘাতের সময় কেউ কেউ বিশ্বাস করে যে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়গুলি মাদ্রাসা থেকে প্রভাব পেয়েছে?
the Crusades