Maktab
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
See also