Fatima al-Fihri

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Fatima al-Fihri ( Arabic فاطمة بنت محمد الفهري, DMG Fāṭima bt. Muḥammad al-Fihrī ; * around 800; † around 880) founded the al-Qarawiyīn mosque in 859, which later became a madrasa, and then the al-Qarawiyīn university in 1963.

Al-Fihri was born in Qairawān , her family later moved to Fez . Her father was a wealthy businessman . From his estate she donated the Qarawīyīn mosque with madrasa . The mosque was both an astronomical observatory and a lecture hall . The first academic degrees were awarded at this site .

The European Union named an Erasmus program with North African universities after al-Fihri.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Erasmus Mundus Fatima Al Fihri Scholarship Program . Universidad de Deusto . Archived from the original on October 4, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 28, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alfihri.eu
  2. ↑ Fatima, al-Fihri . In: Dictionary of African Biography . Oxford University Press , 2011 ( online excerpt [accessed September 28, 2014]).
  3. ↑ Malika Zeghal: The multiple faces of Islamic education in a secular age . In: Islam in the Modern World . Routledge , 2013, pp. 128 ( excerpt online , Google Books [accessed September 28, 2014]).
  4. ↑ Scott Kugle: Sufis and Saints' Bodies . University of North Carolina Press, 2007, pp. 62 ( excerpt online , Google Books [accessed September 28, 2014]).
personal data
SURNAME Fihri, Fatima al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian-Moroccan university founder
DATE OF BIRTH around 800
DATE OF DEATH around 880