Jul 25, 2020
6 min read
The Woman Who Founded the World’s First University
The story of an immigrant Muslim woman who changed the world
It was in the spring of her youth that Fatima al-Fihri came to an awful realization: her beloved hometown did not want her there anymore. The city of Qairawan, her birthplace, was chasing her — and a thousand others like her — away with its unbearable taxes.
