The madrasa education system includes 26 fazil and 3 kamil madrasas. Until today, many ancient Muslim mosques, madrasas, minarets and mausoleums have been preserved in Samarqand. In Samarqand, there are several Shiite mosques and madrasas. Mosques and madrasas are present in most villages. Madrasas and mosques were where most education took place. Mosques evenly spread with major concentration of madrasas around the Mansouri Great Mosque. Musa embarked on a large building program, raising mosques and madrasas in Timbuktu and Gao. However, meetings could be held in private places like madrasas and mosques. Numerous madrasas, mosques, zawiyas and city gates were constructed which survived up until today. It was a developing town that had 350 shops, eight madrasas and five mosques. Later, occasional Muslim raiders reinforced the process of conversion by building mosques, madrasas, and khanqahs. By longstanding tradition, ulama are educated in religious institutions "(madrasas)". A disproportionate number of the extremist madrasas schools funded by the Saudis operate in Pakistan. Six of the madrasas concentrated around the Grand Mosque. Most post-invasion Taliban fighters were new recruits, mostly drawn from local madrasas.