Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
There's a theory, though, that the university of Oxford was actually based on the madrasa​ in the Islamic world.
Yep, via the Templar Chapter House. The Islamic Divines were riffing on the same theme though - we're bored and we need to do something that's Holy but doesn't involve just reading the Koran.

Of course - both owe a great deal to Plato's Academe as well.