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Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University |
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By: FSTC Limited, Wed 20 October, 2004
For well over twelve hundred years Al-Qarawiyyin has been one of the leading spiritual and educational centres of the Muslim World, a typical institution, of many, underlining how learning constituted the heart of the religion of Islam and its civilisation.
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Education in Islam - The Role of the Mosque |
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By: FSTC Research Team, Sun 12 August, 2001
FSTC Research TeamIslam prompted mankind to learn. Thus, from the beginning of Islamic history, the concrete symbol of Islam (the Mosque) became the centre of learning. The Arabic word for univeristy, Jami'a, was derived from Jami' (mosque). The following article presents a short survey on the educational role that some famous mosques played in spreading learning in Islamic society.
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