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Around 859, in the city of Fez, Fatima al-Fihri used her family inheritance to found a mosque, and from it grew al-Qarawiyyin, one of the great centres of learning in the Islamic West. It is often called the oldest university in the world. This book follows the woman, her sister Maryam, the city of Fez, and the long argument about what counts as a “university” and who gets remembered when an institution outlives the person who built it.
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