Fatima al-Fihri
Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque
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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.
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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.
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