Fatima al-Fihri founds al-Qarawiyyin

فاطمة الفهرية تؤسس جامع القرويين

859 CE · 245 AH – 859 CE · 245 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

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Fatima bint Muhammad al-Fihri endowed her fortune for the al-Qarawiyyin mosque at Fez, opened in 245/859 — the most famous mosque of learning in the Islamic West 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation

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Fes Jdid· Ottoman entry into Fez (964/1554)· Capture of Fez· The great calamity of Fez, 813 AH· Idris II builds Fez· Fatema Mernissi· Fes

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  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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Fes Jdid

The New Town of Fes; when the rebellion's west subsided and Sultan Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Abd al-Haqq's kingship ran steady with a great retinue and many incomers, he chose to lay out a separate city for his residence and armies beside old Fes — Fes Jdid, the Marinids' royal seat — and afterwards ordered the qasba of Miknasa built.