Rasulullahﷺ Sirah Resources

  The Great Mosque of Kairouan The Court Yard of Great Mosque Kairouan. A new city Seventh-century North Africa was not the easiest place to establish a new city. It required battling Byzantines; convincing Berbers, the indigenous people of North Africa, to accept centralized Muslim rule; and persuading Middle Eastern merchants to move to North Africa. So, in 670 CE, conquering general Sidi Okba constructed a Friday Mosque ( masjid-i jami`  or jami` ) in what was becoming Kairouan in modern-day Tunisia. A Friday Mosque is used for communal prayers on the Muslim holy day, Friday. The mosque was a critical addition, communicating that Kairouan would become a cosmopolitan metropolis under strong Muslim control, an important distinction at this time and place. The Great Mosque of Kairouan Known as the Great Mosque of Kairouan, it is an early example of a hypostyle mosque that also reflects how pre-Islamic and eastern Islamic art and motifs were incorporated into the religious...

  Al Quwarriyun University in Morrocco.(Open Court Yard World’s First University   Was Founded by A Muslim Woman. Did you know that the first degree-granting university is a Muslim invention? Did you know that this university was founded by a Muslim woman? Early on in Islamic history, mosques doubled as schools. The same people who led prayers would teach groups of students about Islamic sciences such as the Quran, fiqh (jurisprudence), and hadith. As the Muslim world grew, there needed to be formal institutions, known as madrasas, dedicated to the education of students. The first formal madrasa was al-Karaouine, founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri in Fes, Morocco. Her school attracted some of the leading scholars of North Africa, as well as the land’s brightest students. Who Is Fatima Al-Fihri? Fatima Al-Fihri was born in the area that is known as Tunisia today. Her family migrated from their original home to the city of Fez in Morocco in the ninth...