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• Hlodwig@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you want to go that way, a lot of places could qualify as oldest university, some christian monasteries way older than al-qarawiyyin are still inactivities and the main focus of monasteries is to learn and apply “god” teachings…

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  • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder why UNESCO and Guinness do not recognize those Christian monasteries then. Perhaps they did not confer degrees or certificates of scholarly competence (ijazahs) the way that al-Qarawiyyin does.

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    • Hlodwig@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My nephews gets stars stickers when he successfully learn something, does it qualify as degrees and its school qualify for university?

      UNESCO can say whatever they want, it never have been a university in the sense that 90% of the population would not identify it as a university… An ersatz of university? Yeah sure if it make you feel better…

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    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the main reason might just be whether the institution themselves claim they are educational

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