Fatima al-fihri

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The University Fatima al-Fihri founded

[edit] Life History

Fatima al-Fihri is the daughter of Mohammed al-Fihri, with whom she migrated to Fes, Morocco from Qairawan, located in present-day Tunisia. He was a wealthy businessman, and with the inheritance money, Fatima in 859 founded the oldest degree-granting university existing today, the University of Qarawiyyin. During the building of the university, she fasted to become closer to Allah.