# Fatima al-Fihri

> She founded a mosque in ninth-century Fez that grew into what some call the world's oldest continually operating university — though the woman herself may never have existed outside medieval chronicle.

*Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/fatima-al-fihri

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Born:** 800
- **Died:** 880
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Fatima bint Muhammad al-Fihriya al-Qurashiyya, an Arab woman also called Umm al-Banīn, is credited with founding the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque between 857 and 859 CE in Fez, Morocco. The mosque later evolved into a teaching institution and was formally recognized as the University of al-Qarawiyyin in 1963. Her story comes from Ibn Abi Zar's early fourteenth-century chronicle The Garden of Pages, written more than four centuries after her death around 880 CE. That long silence has left modern historians uncertain: some doubt she existed at all.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 9.8 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 22.1 / 100
- **Now attention:** 54.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Religious Figure, #Religion, #Medieval Era

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182363)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_al-Fihri)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Fatima%20al-Fihri)
- [فاطمة بنت محمد الفهرى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%89)
- [Fátima al-Fihri](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1tima_al-Fihri)
- [ফাতিমা আল-ফিহৰী](https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%80)
- [ফাতিমা আল-ফিহরি](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF)
- [Fàtima al-Fihriyya](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A0tima_al-Fihriyya)
- [فاتیمەی کچی فەھریە](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%95%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DA%86%DB%8C_%D9%81%DB%95%DA%BE%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%95)
- [Fātima al-Fihrīya](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C4%81tima_al-Fihr%C4%ABya)
- [Fatima al-Fihriya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_al-Fihriya)
- [Fatima Al Fihri](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_Al_Fihri)
- [Fátima al-Fihri](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1tima_al-Fihri)
- [Fatima al-Fihri](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_al-Fihri)
- [فاطمه فهری](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%85%D9%87_%D9%81%D9%87%D8%B1%DB%8C)
- [Fatima al-Fihriya](https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_al-Fihriya)
- [Fatima al-Fihri](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_al-Fihri)
- [Fatima al-Fihriya](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_al-Fihriya)
- [Fatima al-Fihriya](https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_al-Fihriya)
- [फातिमा अल-फ़िहरी](https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B2-%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80)
- [Fatimah al-Fihri](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimah_al-Fihri)
- [Fatima al-Fihriyya](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_al-Fihriyya)
- [ფატიმა ალ-ფიჰრია](https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A4%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90_%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A-%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%B0%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%90)
- [فاطمہ الفہریہَ](https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%85%DB%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%DB%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%81%D9%8E)
- [Fatimah Al-Fihri](https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimah_Al-Fihri)
- [ഫാത്വിമ അൽ ഫിഹ്‌രി](https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AE_%E0%B4%85%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF)
- [فاطمة بنت محمد الفهرية](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9)
- [فاطمة الفهرية](https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9)

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