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At a glance

Roles: Founder
Region: Maghreb
Identifiers: Wikidata
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Life in time

The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abu Umar al-Mutarriz · Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad · Abu al-Ayna · Al-Jawzajani, Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub · Bayazid al-Bistami

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Overview

A wealthy Tunisian woman who endowed her wealth to the construction of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque in Fez around 859; it is described as the oldest continuously operating university in the world. ¹

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Sources

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islam.museum contributors. “Fatima al-Fihri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/fatima-al-fihri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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