Jamia

Short description: Arabic word for gathering or university

Jamia (جامعة jāmi‘a; also jamiya[h]) is the Arabic word for gathering. It can also refer to a book Al-Jami'a or a mosque, or more generally, a university. In the latter sense it refers in official usage to a modern university, based on the Western model, as opposed to the medieval madrasa.[1] The term seems to be a translation of "university" or the French "université" and emerged in the middle of the 19th century; the earliest definite use in this sense appears in 1906 in Egypt.[1]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Djamia", in Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Brill, 2012

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