Fatima al-Fihri
800 – 880 · Morocco · History
Founded al-Qarawiyyin in 859, the oldest continuously operating university.
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- Ibn Khaldun
1332 – 1406 · History, Economics
Al-Qarawiyyin, which she founded, is the institutional world Ibn Khaldun taught in.
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