Definition of "madrasas" [madrasas]

• Plural form of madrasa, an alternative spelling of madrassah. (noun)

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• "It emerged as a coherent force in the early to mid-1990s, with the support of the Pakistani security services, as a loosely aligned movement of Pashtun Afghans, many of whom had studied at religious schools -- "madrasas" -- in or sponsored by Pakistan, or had fought against the Soviets during the latter's occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s."
• "An American official as quoted in the New York Times observed, "Last week's incident makes it more urgent" to bring stability to the tribal areas where militancy thrives and into Karachi, the biggest city where radical religious schools known as madrasas are popular."
• "Yet the young men who trained in these camps were not educated in the Islamic schools called madrasas and they were inspired less by extremist Islamic ideology than by their desires to see the world, handle weapons, and have a youthful adventure."