madrassa
noun
ma·dras·sa
mə-ˈdra-sə 
-ˈdrä-
variants
or madrasa
or less commonly madrassah
or madrasah
: a Muslim school, college, or university that is often part of a mosque
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Late last year, Parliament passed a new set of laws seeking to improve the quality of madrassa education, both to uplift student outcomes and to help madrassas shed their tag as terrorist hotbeds.
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Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2025
Critics say this ministry has neither the power nor the expertise to keep madrassas in check.
—Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2025
And as media reports have suggested, these madrassas or seminaries had already been vacated earlier.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
Local militant groups like ABT recruit from among madrasah students and teachers, while one of the first deadly attacks on a blogger, back in 2013, was carried out by students at North South University, a prestigious Dhaka educational institution.
—Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2017
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Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2025
Critics say this ministry has neither the power nor the expertise to keep madrassas in check.
—Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2025
And as media reports have suggested, these madrassas or seminaries had already been vacated earlier.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
Local militant groups like ABT recruit from among madrasah students and teachers, while one of the first deadly attacks on a blogger, back in 2013, was carried out by students at North South University, a prestigious Dhaka educational institution.
—Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2017
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“Madrassa.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madrassa. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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