The University of al-Qarawiyyin is widely recognized as the oldest university in the world. Founded as a mosque in 859 AD ... including architecture, engineering, economics, legal studies ...

the daughter of a wealthy Tunisian merchant (she also founded the Qarawiyyin Mosque and Qarawiyyin University). Chaouni also believes that her own role in restoring the library was made possible ...

A courtyard in front of a mosque adjacent to the al-Qarawiyyin Library, pre-restoration. Khonsali via Wikimedia Commons When the library at Morocco’s al-Qarawiyyin University was first built in ...

the daughter of a wealthy Tunisian merchant (she also founded the Qarawiyyin Mosque and Qarawiyyin University). Chaouni also believes that her own role in restoring the library was made possible ...