A cewar IKNA daga Rasha, da yawa daga cikin manyan mufti na Rasha da aka haifa a zamanin Soviet sun sami ilimin addini a Makarantar Kimiyyar Addini ta Mir Arab. Babban dalilin hakan, baya ga suna da shekarun makarantar, shine gwamnatin Soviet ta ba ta lasisi a matsayin daya daga cikin cibiyoyin addini kalilan da aka bai wa Musulmai damar yin aiki a wannan kasar.

A zahiri makarantar ta samo sunanta ne daga Sayyid Abdullah Yamani, wanda aka fi sani da Mir Arab (Sarkin Larabawa) kuma an haife shi a Yemen.

A kan shirinsa, a shekarar 1530 (936 AH), an fara gina makaranta a gefen gabashin Masallacin Kalyan. Mir Arab ya mutu kafin a kammala makarantar. Bisa ga wasiyyarsa, surukinsa, Sheikh Zakaria, ya kammala ginin a shekarar 1536 (942 AH).

Wannan cibiyar ilimi ta bambanta da sauran makarantun addini ta hanyar kumbon ta guda biyu masu launin shuɗi, kuma ƙofar shiga tana gefen yamma. Masallacin yana ƙarƙashin kumbon a dama da kabarin a ƙarƙashin kumbon a hagu; cikin makarantar kuma an tsara shi da kyau. Manyan baka huɗu sun raba ɗakunan, waɗanda aka yi wa ado da kayan ado masu siffar tauraro.

An ɗauki rubuce-rubuce da lithographs a cikin ɗakin karatu na madrasa a matsayin gadon al'adu da ruhaniya na wannan wuri.

Wannan makarantar mai hawa biyu ta ƙunshi ɗakuna 114, adadin surorin Alƙur'ani, kuma sananne ne kuma mai mahimmanci a duk faɗin duniyar Musulunci. Wannan wuri ya ba da gudummawa mai mahimmanci ba kawai a matsayin abin tarihi na gine-gine ba, har ma a matsayin cibiyar ilimi wajen haɓaka addinin Musulunci da al'adunsa.

Tsarin gine-ginen makarantar Mir-Arab (shuɗi mai zurfi, tayal mai rikitarwa, da amfani da tsarin lissafi mai ban mamaki) yana da tasiri kai tsaye daga salon gine-ginen Iran (Timurid da Safavid). Wannan salon gine-gine, wanda ya samo asali daga Iran, ya kai kololuwar sa a Bukhara, wanda ya sanya makarantar ta zama alamar ɗaukakar wayewar Iran da Musulunci.

Makarantar Mir-Arab wani ɓangare ne na gadon tarihi na tsohon birnin Bukhara, wanda kuma yana cikin Jerin Gado na Duniya na UNESCO.

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