Maktab

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Maktab (in Arabic مكتب) from the Arabic word kataba or write, refers to a school, or an business office.

Containing the term

  • Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), also Maktab Khadamāt al-Mujāhidīn al-'Arab, also known as the Afghan Services Bureau, was founded in 1984 by Abdullah Azzam, Wa'el Hamza Julaidan, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to raise funds and recruit foreign mujahidin for the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan
  • Maktab Rendah Sains MARA, or MARA Junior Science College, a group of boarding schools created by Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA), a Malaysian government agency
  • Maktab-e Tawhid, was a Shi'i seminary for women, established in Qom, Iran's clerical center in 1975, as a wing of the Haghani school

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