Do you know? // College of Al Quaraouiyine is world’s oldest college

The College Of Al Quaraouiyine positioned within the Fez, Morocco, is the oldest college not simply in Africa however all the world.

The college, which was based by Fatima Al-Fihri as a mosque first, was established in 859 AD earlier than subsequently turning into a spot of studying and one of many world’s most vital Islamic non secular and training centres.

A few of this college alumni embrace; geographer, Muhammad Al-Idrisi and Jewish philosophical author, Maimonides.

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