Tag: Al-Qarawiyyin University

By Moin Kazi Did you know that a Muslim woman founded the world's first university? Maybe you did not. No popular sources beyond academic history books concerning the golden age of Islamic civilization have ever mentioned such a fact. Instead, people are generally inclined to think Islam would never allow women to attend classes in madrasas (schools), founded as early as the ninth century. Muslim women were very active in the academic studies of early Islam. Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives, was among the prominent Islamic jurists of her...