Ancient and Medieval Centers of Learning

Ancient and Medieval Centers of Learning groups institutions of ancient or medieval founding that do not operate as a degree-granting institution today, split out of Higher Education Institutions on the one fact that distinguishes this group from an ancient- or medieval-founded institution that continues operating as a modern university. Belongs here: Plato's Academy, the philosophical school in ancient Athens; Nalanda, the Buddhist monastic university of ancient India; the House of Wisdom, the Abbasid-era center of translation and scholarship in Baghdad; and the Nizamiyya, the medieval network of Seljuk-founded madrasas. Does not belong here: an institution of ancient or medieval founding that continues operating today as a degree-granting university, such as the University of Bologna, the University of Paris or the University of al-Qarawiyyin, grouped under Higher Education Institutions, because that continuity of operation is the fact this group is built on.