However, Alexandria remained a centre of scholarship and other libraries existed.

The Brno Monastery was a centre of scholarship, with an extensive library and tradition of scientific research.

Dewey wrote later that as the centre of scholarship gets removed from the mass of persons and the things of daily life, culture becomes tangential to life, not convergent.

Innisfallen was a centre of scholarship in the early Middle Ages, producing the Annals of Innisfallen and, according to legend, educating King Brian Boru.

The city however remained predominantly Assyrian Christian in the early centuries of Islamic rule and gained fame as an important centre of scholarship of Syriac and Christian Arab literature.

It became a centre of scholarship and although raided by Vikings in 837 and burned in 1157, it later flourished as the site of the parish church and St Mary's Augustinian Priory.

To this end, the School represents a new hybrid: a form of parallel gallery and centre of scholarship, open to the needs of its own constituency and alert to the possibilities of all disciplines that involve language.

But, we have to recognize that the occasion we are marking today is due in large part to Jim Balsillie, and his determination to create a centre of scholarship and research that will be unique in this country.

Timbuktu may be hard to get to but it played an essential role as a centre of scholarship under the Songhay state until the invasion from the rulers of Marrakesh in 1591, and even thereafter it was revived.

By terminating the Rolls Series in 1894 and concentrating on making guides and calendars to the records, which professional historians could now access directly, Maxwell Lyte transformed the Record Office into a centre of scholarship.

But they should never supplant the university's reputation as a center of scholarship and research.

The organization's move could bolster the area's reputation as a center of scholarship and college preparation.

However, Alexandria remained a centre of scholarship and other libraries existed.

Not exactly a galactic center of scholarship, is it?

Besides educating some 600,000 students, they are centers of scholarship and critical intelligence for a church that insists faith must not be detached from understanding.

Goal 2 focuses on targeted support which will ensure that research intensive units flourish as leading-edge centres of scholarship.

The city is also a center of scholarship in the Urdu language, once north India's lingua franca.

By A.D. 800, Baghdad was a great center of scholarship, giving birth to mathematics and medicine.

These were to be the chief centres of scholarship and religion that brought Europe, at last, out of the Dark Ages.

The Brno Monastery was a centre of scholarship, with an extensive library and tradition of scientific research.

Hydros was too isolated, too backward, too remote from whatever centres of scholarship might still exist.

He was the most prolific of the authors of the Acehnese court, and helped contribute to its international reputation as a center of scholarship.

In musicological circles, the University of Michigan is known as a center of scholarship for American music, both classical and popular.

Under tolerant rulers, the capital city Córdoba was transformed into one of Europe's greatest centers of scholarship and the arts.

Irish missionaries like Colombanus later founded monasteries in continental Europe, which went on to create libraries and become centres of scholarship.

The Library flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship.

Gallaudet, a private university in Northeast Washington that receives federal support, is nationally known as a center of scholarship for the deaf and hard of hearing.

He turned the Courtauld Institute in London from an enjoyably chaotic finishing school into a sophisticated, if dictatorially run, center of scholarship.

The monastery which grew out of the endeavors of the settlers on Murano went on to become a leading center of scholarship and printing.

In 2010 at UBC, targeted support will ensure that our strongest research-intensive units flourish as leading-edge centres of scholarship.

According to Wemple, "The Irish monasteries, with the ancient tradition of oral learning, were at the time the most distinguished centers of scholarship".

While there are scores of small Christian colleges across the United States, none can lay claim to being a center of scholarship outside the Christian world.

During the High Middle Ages, Chartres Cathedral operated a famous and influential cathedral school, an important center of scholarship.

Centres of scholarship developed at both sites, making Canterbury one of Europe's leading centres of learning (universities did not appear in England until the 1200's).

The mosque of al-Azhar, first dedicated in the year 970, is Egypt's oldest mosque and considered one of Islam's most important centres of scholarship.