This #Muslim #Women started the first #university of learning that the rest of the #world benefited from. Throughout the ages, from the earliest days of #Islam to contemporary times today, Muslim women have been and continue to be active leaders in their communities and countries across the world. Fatima Al-Fihri was one of those Muslim women who lived to make life for her community better and was a woman with a vision. She was from a prestigious family and had inherited a fortune from her father. As a young, wealthy and well #educated woman her interest was neither in shoes or handbags, nor in any celebrity lifestyle, neither to woe a man for marriage, nor in any of the stereotypes that are usually associated with us women folk. There was depth in this woman, she had a vision that was cultivated and allowed to grow because of the Islamic society she lived in and encouraged her. Her vision did not remain a dream but was accomplished and the results can still be seen today. In 859, Fatima Al-Fihri founded the oldest academic degree-granting university existing #today, the University of Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco. The Majority of the world is not aware of this amazing fact of history so please share this so more people can be enlightened by this.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:47:45 +0000
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