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the sources credit al-Qarawiyyin to her
she was a merchant, not a queen
she was in Morocco, not Baghdad
she was a mosque-builder, not a warrior
the sources date the building mid-ninth century
that is the Dome''s year, not al-Qarawiyyin''s
that is three centuries after her building
the sources have her build al-Qarawiyyin
the sources place the city in North Africa
Kairouan is her home city, not the mosque''s place
al-Qarawiyyin is in Morocco, not Egypt
al-Qarawiyyin is in Fez, not Damascus
the sources have her spend the inheritance on building
the wealth was inheritance, not marriage
it was inheritance, not spoils
the wealth was a father''s inheritance
memory records her fasting to the end
the sources record her fast, not travel
the sources have her complete it
the sources have no site change
memory ties these figures to al-Qarawiyyin
they were European, not in Fez
he was in Istanbul, not Fez
the school graduated generations of scholars
the sources name her school''s varied sciences
it covered several sciences, not just fiqh
it was a full school of sciences
its sciences were classical, not modern art
international bodies rank it the oldest university
it is oldest, not largest
it stood a thousand years ago, not recently
it stayed a working university, not a museum
the sources date her death about 880
that is the building year, not death
that is over a century after her death
the sources give about 880
al-Qarawiyyin stayed working over a thousand years
she built a school, not scripture
she did not conquer; she built learning
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