Qur'anScience
Qur'anScience
According to tradition, a woman from Kairouan spent her inheritance to build a mosque in Fez in 859 CE — and fasted throughout its construction. That mosque became a centre of learning that produced scholars such as al-Idrisi and Ibn Khaldun, and is today a university. The thirty-eighth book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of Fatimah al-Fihri — with an honest look at the sources of her story. “The mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe.”
“The mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and establish prayer and give zakah and do not fear except Allah.”
Anyone who wants to know the early scholars
Parents & heads of families
Students of history, education & endowments
Preachers, teachers & counsellors
The story of Fatimah al-Fihri — verses 9:18 and 33:35, two authentic Hadith with linked chains, a timeline of al-Qarawiyyin, a chart of the story’s sources, history notes marked separately, and a table of popular stories.