Al Karaouine, the university

Al Karaouine, the university emblem of the city of Fes present from the year 859, during the reign of the Idrissides Dynasty. It is considered the oldest university in the world, still active.
She is a woman, Umm Al Banine Fatima Al Fihriya, heir of a wealthy Kairouan, which is at the origin of its foundation. Throughout the centuries, the mosque sees architecture evolve and expand. She becomes the tenth century to the twelfth century, an important center of learning and one of the first universities in the world.
In the twelfth century, a whole series of names among the greatest will be associated in one way or another to the Quaraouiyine: major precursors of Sufism, such Hrizim Ibn Abu Madyane, Ben Abdeslam Alami Mchich, philosophers Avenpace and Averroes, the geographer Al Idrissi but Maimonides and Ibn Khaldun (Wiki)