Al-Qarawiyyin: The World’s Oldest Operating University

Al-Qarawiyyin: The World’s Oldest Operating University

The storied, branching timeline of the Muslim World is a topic of great reverence and intrigue; this is a theme you will find yourself coming back to constantly as you journey through the world of Islamic Excellence with the guiding hand of Author Naeem Ur Rahman Sheikh. The Muslim world of today is rife with different points of view, differing opinions, and biased inclinations, but Sheikh wishes to bring the Muslim world back to its glory days with this exploration of Islam so that one day, we may unite in our one goal: Gratitude Toward Allah. The horizon is endless in our exploration of the hypothetically strongest influence on Muslim Excellence throughout the golden age: The University and Mosque of Al-Qarawiyyin, the oldest still-operating university to date. Our journey through this swan song of the Islamic golden age provided Courtesy of Naeem Ur Rahman Sheikh will take us around the globe, where Islam started, different significant leaders in the Muslim world, how the University of Al-Qarawiyyin was founded by the visionary Fatima Al-Fihri, and the state of the Muslim World today.