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16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
Seventy kilometers south of Duhok lies the picturesque town of Amedi, a place brimming with cultural heritage.
Beside the river sit the ruins of Qubahani school, one of the oldest schools in the Kurdistan Region.
Dating back to 1534, it was built by Sultan Hussein Wali, king of the Badinan Dynasty.
The school welcomed imams and scholars from Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and further afield for hundreds of years.
Teaching Quran and Sharia, as well as philosophy, mathematics, engineering, medicine and astronomy, scientists who graduated from the school went on to serve the Ottoman Empire.
According to Ahmed Mohammed Shukri Mufti, the son of the last Mufti who ran the school, Qubahani continued running until Abdul Karim Qassim’s military coup of 1958.
After Qubahani’s state funding was stopped, it slipped into dilapidation.
Restoration efforts began in 2012.
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16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools
16th century ruins of Qubahani, one of Kurdistan’s oldest schools