The Moroccan Ministry of Culture on receiving a multi-million dollar grant requested Canadian-Moroccoan architect Aziza Chaouni the historic al-Qarawiyyin library to safeguard its contents and make it suitable for public use, according to TED, an educational non-profit organization.
The al-Qarawiyyin complex, which includes a mosque, library, and university, was founded in 859 AD by Fatima El-Fihriya, the daughter of a rich immigrant to Fez from modern-day Tunisia. Well educated and devout, she vowed to invest her entire inheritance on a mosque and knowledge center for her new home.
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