On this International Day of Education we honor the woman who founded what would become the first university

Fatima bint Muhammad al-Fihriyaal-Qurashiyya (Arabic: فاطمة بنت محمد الفهرية القرشية),[1] known in shorter form as Fatima al-Fihriya[2] or Fatima al-Fihri,[3] was an Arab woman who is credited with founding the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque in 857–859 CE in Fez, Morocco. She is also known as Umm al-Banīn ("Mother of the Children").[4] Al-Fihriya died around 880 CE.[4][5] The al-Qarawiyyin Mosque subsequently developed into a teaching institution, which became the modern University of al-Qarawiyyin in 1963.[6] Her story is told by Ibn Abi Zar' (d. between 1310 and 1320) in The Garden of Pages (Rawd al-Qirtas) as founder of the mosque.[7] Since she was first mentioned many centuries after her death, her story has been hard to substantiate and some modern historians doubt she ever existed

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Did the Man who Invented College Go to College?

This perplexing chicken and egg philosophical problem is widely talked about because of a rap song by the hip-hop artist Marcus Jamal Hopson, otherwise known as Hopsin. It is meant to provoke thought since, presumably, the man who invented college could not have gone to college himself, at least not at the time he invented it. However, there is a very surprising answer to the question which gets out of all the philosophical traps. You can see the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MitZ-C0tgQ The first college in the world is generally agreed to be University of Karueein, founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco. It is consider the world's first university and is actually in operation today under the name of The University of Al Quaraouiyine. The university, however, was not founded by a man. That's right people, it was founded by a woman by the name of Fatima bint Muhammad Al-Fihriya Al-Qurashiya.

The oldest university in the world is was founded by a woman.

The Oldest College in the World was Founded by a Woman

According to Wikipedia: Al-Fihri was an Arab Muslim woman who is credited with founding the oldest existing, continually operating and first degree-awarding educational institution in the world.Al-Fihri was born around 800 AD in the town of Kairouan, in present-day Tunisia. She is of Arab Qurayshi descent, hence the name "Fatima al-Fihri al-Qurashiyya . Her family was part of a large migration to Fes from Kairouan. Although her family did not start out wealthy, her father, Mohammed al-Fihri, became a successful merchant. She and her sister Maryam were well-educated and studied the Islamic jurisprudence Fiqh and the Hadith, or the records of Prophet Muhammed. Both went on to found mosques in Fes: Fatima founded Al-Qarawiyyin and Maryam founded Al-Andalus. Little is known about her personal life, except for what was recorded by 14th century historian Ibn Abi-Zaraa’. This is largely due to the fact that the Al-Qarawiyyin library suffered a large fire in 1323. Al-Fihri was married, but both her husband and father passed away shortly after the wedding. Her father left his wealth to both Fatima and her sister, his only children.Wikipedia So the next time someone asks if the man who invented college went to college, tell them to put that in their pipe and smoke it! Read the full article