madrasah

American  

[muh-dras-uh] / məˈdræs ə /

Or madrasa,

noun

Islam.

1. a school or college, especially a school attached to a mosque where young men study theology.

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madrasah British  

/ məˈdrɛseɪ, ˈmɑːdræsə, məˈdræsə /

noun

1. Islam an educational institution, particularly for Islamic religious instruction

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Etymology

Origin of madrasah

From Arabic

Example Sentences

Iltimas recalls lying next to Lindh on their separate cots at night, talking about opening a madrasah in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Click on the claim that Obama attended a "radical madrasah," for instance, and it takes you to a CNN feature on the very ordinary-looking elementary school he actually went to as a child in Indonesia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The four men used the madrasah as a base for recruiting their earliest disciples.

From Time Magazine Archive

His chosen site was just a kilometer or so away from the madrasah where a one-eyed cleric named Mullah Mohammed Omar launched a movement of young religious zealots in 1994.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a wisdom far in advance of his time, he planned to educate the followers of Shi'aism by the introduction of madrasah mosques and colleges.

From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes