Al-Azhar Mosque
The University of Al Karaouine, founded in 859 AD, is listed in "The Guinness Book Of Records" as the world's oldest degree-granting university. The Al-Azhar University was another early madrasa now recognized as a university. The madrasa is one of the relics of the Fatimid caliphate. The Fatimids traced their descent to Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and named the institution using a variant of her honorific title "Al-Zahra" (the brilliant). Organized instruction in the Al-Azhar Mosque began in 978.