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The Arabic name of the university [a] means "University of the People from Kairouan". [b] Factors such as the provenance of Fatima al-Fihriya's family in Tunisia, [16] the presence of the letter Qāf – a voiceless uvular plosive which has no equivalent in European languages – the ويّي triphthong in the university's name, and the French colonization of Morocco have resulted in a number ...
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The mosque was founded around 1276 by the Marinid sultan Abu Yusuf, at the same time as he founded the new royal city Fes el-Jdid. [3] [2] [4]: 310 (Fes el-Jdid was created as a fortified palace and administrative city, separate from Fes el-Bali (old Fes), from which the Marinid dynasty ruled over Morocco. [1])
The Madrasa of Fes el-Jdid, [1] also known as the Madrasa of Dar al-Makhzen, [2] was a 14th-century madrasa built by the Marinid dynasty in the Fes el-Jdid quarter of Fez, Morocco. The madrasa was later converted into a mosque and integrated into the expanded Dar al-Makhzen (Royal Palace) of Fez, where it still stands today.
Fes el-Jdid was founded in 1276 by the Marinid sultan Abu Yusuf Ya'qub. [4] It was to serve as the new royal citadel and center of government for Morocco under Marinid rule, including a Royal Palace (Dar al-Makhzen), military barracks, and residential neighbourhoods. [2]
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The fame of the Mosque of Uqba and of the other holy sites at Kairouan helped the city to develop and expand. The university, consisting of scholars who taught in the mosque, was a centre of education both in Islamic thought and in the secular sciences. [8] Its role at the time can be compared to that of the University of Paris in the Middle ...
The Zawiya of Sidi Taoudi Ben Souda (also spelled Zawiya of Sidi Tawdi ibn Suda) is a zawiya (religious complex) and mosque in Fes el-Bali, the old medina of Fes, Morocco. It is named after Muḥammad al-Tāwdī Ibn al-Ṭālib Ibn Sūda al-Murrī (died 1795), an 18th-century Sufi sheikh who is considered by some to be one of the foremost ...