Education

Educational Institutions

Universities

	Kairouan Capital of Political Power and Learning in the Ifriqiya
	By: FSTC Research Team, Fri 29 January, 2010 FSTC Research Team The following article presents a survey on some glorious pages of the history of Kairouan, the ancient capital of the Islamic Ifriqiya (present day Tunisia). Founded in 670 by ‘Uqba ibn Nafi', the Arab general in command of the Muslim conquest of North Africa, Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9th century and was an important urban center of the Islamic west, with a rich architectural heritage and a thriving tradition of learning.
	The world-class University of Sankore, Timbuktu
	By: Zulkifli Khair (FSTC Limited), Thu 05 June, 2003 Sankore's achievement in higher education is important to Islamic Civilisation even though it was less known compared to Al-Azhar, Al-Qairawan, Al-Qarawiyyin and Qurtuba Universities.
	Al-Azhar University - 1000 years of Scholarship
	By: FSTC Limited, Tue 10 April, 2001 FSTC Research Team Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo in Egypt is a fundamental Islamic monument with many dimensions. Constructed by the Caliph Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah for the newly established capital city in 970, it was the first mosque established in Cairo, a city that has since gained the nickname "the city of a thousand minarets. In this article, we present a short history of the Al-Azhar mosque and its progressive transformation into one of the most influential centres of Islamic learning for more than a millennium.