Fatima al-Fihri
c. 800–880 · Africa · Medieval
Founded al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, regarded as the world's oldest university.
Portrait: Anass Sedrati · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Birthplace
- Africa
- Known as
- Founded al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, regarded as the world's oldest university.
Fatima al-Fihri (c. 800–880) endures among the great of Africa. Founded al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, regarded as the world's oldest university. Across the medieval age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
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