خلاصه ماشینی:
In the Hadith-collections we see a reflection of the mode of learning, when the Prophet is represented as sitting in the mosque with his halqa of listeners who repeat his words three times in order to memorise thern-, and people come and ask him about this or that hadith2• As some learning about Islam was indispensable to every Muslim, 'Umar sent in the year 17 teachers of the Qur'an in every region, and the people attended their lectures in the mosque every Friday.
Nasir i-Khosrau, of the 5th century, tells that 5,000 people daily visited the mosque of 'Amr, amongst them teachers, qurra', students, strangers, writers making contracts and bills, etc6• You found circles, halaq, of people attending lectures in all kinds of science, especially (1) V.
A big staff of scholars were busy with studies, with lectures and with the administration of the library, that comprised all kinds of books of Muslim science, a large amount of books treating of Medicine, Astronomy and others of " the old sciences ", that were of little inter• est to studies connected with the mosque3• This splendid institution was in a flourishing state for half a century.
Often a madrasa was founded, not separately, but in a mosque, a room being arranged in it and one or more scholars being appointed to give lectures and may be even to live there.
At the time of al-Maqrizi there were 8 rooms for fiqh studies in the mosque of 'Amr in Cairo, and in the middle of the 8th century there were more (1) Rihla219 12.