In a paper delivered at the University of California, Los Angeles, on the occasion of the Second Conference for Islamic Studies (1), I spoke on the subject of Law and Traditionalism in the Institutions of Learning in Medieval Islam. In that paper, I touched upon the subject of the Islamic madrasa and the Christian university in the middle ages comparing them briefly in some aspects of their development. The present paper (2) carries the discussion further along these same lines.
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George Makdisi (1970) studied this question.