📅 22 June 972
Al-Azhar opened in Fatimid Cairo and developed into a long-lived institution of learning.
📅 22 June 972
Alongside religious and linguistic studies, scholars taught inheritance arithmetic, astronomy, timekeeping and related mathematical subjects.
📅 22 June 972
Al-Azhar shows how mathematics was transmitted through teaching communities rather than only through famous books and individuals.
📅 22 June 972
Students from Africa, Asia and the wider Islamic world carried methods and texts across linguistic and political boundaries.
