Al-Karaouine: From a Small Mosque for Islamic Worship to the First University in the World and Source of Knowledge.

Al-Karaouine: From a Small Mosque for Islamic Worship to the First University in the World and Source of Knowledge.

Luxury Fes Tours is one of the best Agencies, that gives much importance to the historical monuments, and Fez is full of such ones. With our agency, you will get to be introduced to the first University in the world, Al-Karaouine.
Al-Karaouine University was built in 859 AD - that is, about a hundred years before the establishment of the Al-Azhar University in Cairo – by Fatima Al-Fehriya, the daughter of an immigrant called Muhammad Ben Abdullah Al-Fihri, who resided in Kairouan and was a wealthy merchant. After his death, Fatima decided to spend on building and expanding the mosque, transforming it from a small mosque to a big university in the Islamic West.
According to the Guinness Book of Records and UNESCO, the University of Al-Karaouine in the Moroccan city of Fez is the oldest university in the history of the world at all. It is indeed a source of pride that the cornerstone of this prestigious university is a woman.
The primary aim was to build a mosque that was limited to worship, but developed into a scientific institute that provides education in many people, including medicine, philosophy, natural sciences, astronomy, and others.
The university still works as an academic institution in Morocco and Fez to this day and many Islamic symbols and Western scholars have graduated from them “Sylvester II” who held the position of the papacy from the year 999 to 1903 and Musa Maimon the famous doctor and philosopher of his time, and the Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun, the founder of sociology.
Al-Karaouine University is one of the oldest universities in the world, and one of the most prominent historical monuments that the city of Fez is proud of as a scientific and spiritual capital of the Kingdom of Morocco. It has been going on for about 12 centuries, as it has been the home of an active scientific and juristic movement, and a seedbed for many Arab and Western scholars as well.

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