The Islamic City · event 6 of 15

970

Al-Azhar is built. The Fatimid congregational mosque is completed in 972 and teaching begins in 975, making it by most reckonings the oldest continuously operating university in the world.

The The Islamic City era

  1. 641
  2. 750
  3. 868
  4. 879
  5. 969
  6. 970
  7. 1087
  8. 1168
  9. 1171
  10. 1176
  11. 1250
  12. 1258
  13. 1348
  14. 1356–1363
  15. 1474

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