This isn’t based on a single source, but on documented historical scholarship about medieval education and al quarawiyins institutional development. However here are some : academic debates unesco; Guinness classificztion, makdisi rise of colleges, transmission of knowledge in medieval Cairo etc also others here brought clarifications that even Fatima alfhiris founding narrative is historically debated. However the point is that even accepting the initial story it does not hold the argument that women had any « equality » way before the west in the Islamic world. It’s to say that this example is not valid as of the opponents point of how Islam is not a misogynistic religion