23/09/2022
🕋Bismillah
🕋Islamic History
🕋Islamic Education
🌷The Qarawiyyin University, Fez, Morocco (857 or 859)
🌷Fatima Al-Fihriyya
🌷Founder of the First University in the World
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🌷Islam didn't disregard women's right for education. In fact, the first, the oldest, and the longest operating university in the world is in Fez, Morocco, The Qarawiyyin University. We should know that degree-granting universities in our modern era has been establised by Islamic Golden Age.
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🌷 Al-Qarawiyyin University, is the world’s oldest, and continually operating university throughout the history. The Al-Qarawinyyin potential students must be a Muslim, it is mandatory have to fully memorized the Quran, competent in classical Arabic literacy, and grammar comprehension of the medieval Islamic or Maliki law.
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🌷The two renowned mosques at Fez, Morocco, were built by the two brilliant Muslim sisters, Fatima and Meriam Al-Fihriyya. First, Mariam built the monumental Al-Andalus Mosque in 859 AD. The sisters began the constructions of the legendary Al Qarawiyyin and Al-Andalusiyyin mosques at the beginning of Ramadan month of year 254 of Hegira in 857. Fatima quickly followed the founding the Al-Qawariyin Mosque, boasting such a large complex that it was able to host a university within its walls.
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🌷The Al-Qarawinyyin started as madrasa, became the leading spiritual and educational centers of North Africa, eventually transformed as a place of higher institution and introduced system of degrees conforming to different levels of studies in several of fields, such as religious studies, grammar and rhetoric, quickly expanded to include logic, medicine, mathematics and astronomy, among many others.
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source: aboutislam/worlds-first-university
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🌹841 CE - Fatima Al-Fihriyya - Founder of the World First Oldest University, Al
