Did you know that the founder of the world's first university was a woman? 🕌🧕🇲🇦 Fatima Al-Fihri noticed that the mosques of Fez were not large enough to accommo...date the city’s growing population, so she took it upon herself to build a grand mosque with a madrasa (school) attached. When construction began during Ramadan in A.D. 859, she vowed to fast until her dream was realised. The madrasa was completed in A.D. 861 and named the University of Al Quaraouiyine after al-Fihri’s home city. She could not have imagined how long her legacy would last. To this day, students aged 13-30 attend the school to gain both high school-level diplomas and university degrees. Al-Fihri’s madrasa is the oldest university still operating, pre-dating the UK's oldest university of Oxford by nearly 200 years. #300YearsTreaty #UKMorocco #WomenandGirls ©
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