The Grand Mosque is situated in front of the Madrasa Bou Inania. It appears over the doorway of an early twentieth century CE mosque/madrasa in Cairo. Ulum Al Islamia Madrasa at Lal Khan Bazar, Chittagong. He learnt Urdu and Persian from a maulvi in the madrasa. The iwan in the western corner leads to another madrasa and a winter mosque. Earlier there used to be a Madrasa in this mosque. The old town has Berber monuments, mosques, and a 14th-century madrasa (Coranic school). Dangote was educated at the Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa, followed by Capital High School, Kano. The minaret, made of brick rises above the northwestern corner of the madrasa. The teachings of sufism only built upon the foundations of a madrasa education. The Al-Azhar University was another early university (madrasa). After his graduation, Thanawi taught high level books of religious sciences in Faiz-e-Aam Madrasa, Kanpur. Colleges such as the Saqlatuniya Madrasa in Cairo were funded and staffed entirely by women. The whole staff of the madrasa, particularly the headmaster, regretted this very much. He was initially buried there, before being reburied in the Nur al-Din Madrasa.