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According to Ibn Abi Zar', the father was named Muhammad al-Fihri al-Qayrawani and he came to Fez as part of a larger migration of families from Kairouan during the early Idrisid period. With him were his wife, his sister, and his daughter. Ibn Abi Zar' mentions that the latter, Fatima, was also known as Umm al-Banīn ("Mother of the Two Sons ...
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 ...
According to historical sources like al-Jazna'i, the mosque was founded in 859-860 (245 AH) by Maryam bint Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Fihri (sister of Fatima al-Fihri, who founded the Qarawiyyin Mosque at the same time).
Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri in Ifriqiya (745–755) and Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri in Al-Andalus (747–756) ruled their dominions virtually independently of the Caliphate. For a moment, it seemed as if the Fihrids might succeed in turning the western half of the Islamic world into a private family empire.
Fatima al-Fihri (800, Kairouan – 880), science patron and founder of the Al Quaraouiyine mosque; Fatima bint Musa (790–816), theologian and saint; Ibn Fallus (13th century), mathematician; Al-Farahidi (c. 718 – 791), writer and philologist, compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic language, the Kitab al-Ayn
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University of Al Quaraouiyine: Founded by Fatima al-Fihri, originally as a mosque. In addition to a place for worship, the mosque soon developed into a place for religious instruction and political discussion, gradually extending its education to a broad range of subjects, particularly the natural sciences. Al-Karaouine played, in medieval ...
Fatima al-Fihri, for example, is credited for founding the Karaouine mosque in Fes in 859, which in later centuries developed into the "world's first academic degree-granting institution of higher education". [11] Fatima's sister, Mariam al-Fihri, also founded the al-Andalus Mosque in Fes. [12]