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Al Mustansiriya University main door.Façade on the gates of the university showingarabesque
Al-Mustansiriyah University(Arabic:الجامعة المستنصرية) is apublic universitylocated inBaghdad,Iraq.It traces its origin back to 1227. The modern form of the university was founded in 1963.
The originalMustansiriya Madrasahwas established in 1227 (or 1232/34 A.D. by some accounts) by theAbbasidCaliphAl-Mustansirand was one of the oldest universities in the world. Its building, on the left bank of theTigrisRiver, survived theMongol invasionof 1258 and has been restored.
The modern Mustansiriyah University was established with the help and financial support of the Republic of Ίrāq Teacher's Union in 1963, mainly providing evening courses. In 1964, the university was given the status of a semi-state institution and some state financial support. At the same time it absorbed Al-Sha’ab University, another private university that had been founded by the Ίrāqi Association of Economists, and then moved to a new campus to the north of the city centre. Initially, the university also managed colleges in Mosul and Basra.
In 1966 a law was passed under which the private universities were converted into public universities. Mustansiriyah thus became, briefly, a college within theUniversity of Baghdad.In 1967 a major reorganisation of higher education was initiated, with the intention that by 1969 all previous institutions would be abolished and reconstituted. Mustansiriyah was designated as a separate University in 1968, and its branch campuses were detached to form part of theUniversity of Mosuland theUniversity of Basra.
College ofDentistry:The second in Baghdad (after theUniversity of Baghdad's College of Dentistry). Established by Dr. Ahmad M. Ismail. Based outside the main campus, attached to Al-Karama Teaching Hospital.
