sertation can be passed. Universities in the non-English-speaking world have begun adopting similar standards to those of the Anglophone Ph.D. degree for their research doctorates (see, for example, Bologna Process).[2]ආචාර්‍ය උපාධි ඉතිහාසය[සංස්කරණය]The origins of the doctorate dates back to the ijazat attadris wa 'l-iftta ("license to teach and issue legal opinions") in the medieval Madrasahs from the 9th century, though it was limited to Islamic law at the time, as in a Doctor of Laws degree.[3] The doctorate was later extended to philosophy in the යුරෝපයan universities in the Middle Ages which generally placed all academic disciplines outside the professional fields of theology, වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාව and law under the broad heading of "philosophy" (or "natural philosophy" when referring to science). The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was a doctorate, generally granted as honorary degrees to select and well-established scholars.[තහවුරු කර නොමැත]According to Wellington, Bathmaker, Hun