Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Oldest University. [ARTICLE]

Oldest University.

The prevalent Idea that the oldest university is in Europe Is Incorrect. In the tenth and eleventh centuries the university at Fez, Africa, was almost the only seat of Arabic and Christian learning in the world. Before universities existed in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Padua, or Bologna, students flocked to Fez from Andalusia, France, and even England, and Fez is to-day the principal western seat of Mohammedan theology.