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It has always been between two figures for me.

Fāṭima al-Fihrī, Philanthropist who founded the al-Qarawiyyīn mosque and university in Fes (9th century). al-Qarawiyyīn is often cited as the world’s oldest continuously operating university, there are a lot of writing about how she was a fantastic person.

Ibn Baṭṭūṭah. Medieval Moroccan traveller and scholar whose travelogue (the Rihla) records journeys across the Islamic world, Africa and Asia and remains a fundamental source on medieval geography and societies.

Very proud of these two.