# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fatima-al-fihri
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:24:52.737Z

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name: "Fatima al-Fihri"
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description: "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."
tagline: "Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque"
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deathDate: "880"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.