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Fatima al-Fihri: Founder of the World's First University

Al-Fihri was the founder of the world's longest continually operating university, the Al-Qarawiyyin University, which promoted Mathematics Education for hundreds of invidivudals. Fatima used the money she inherited from her father to purchase a mosque that was built around 845 AD under the supervision of King Yahya ibn Muhammad. She then rebuilt it and bought the surrounding land, doubling its size.
Fatima bint Muhammad Al-Fihriya Al-Qurashiya was an Arab woman who is credited with founding the al-Qarawiyyin mosque in 859 CE in Fez, Morocco. She is also known as "Umm al-Banayn". Al-Fihri died around 880 AD. The Al-Qarawiyyin mosque subsequently developed a teaching institution, which became the University of al-Qarawiyyin in 1963.

Sutayta Al-Mahamli: An Algebraic Scholar of Ages.

Sutayta Al-Mahamli was one whose law and courteousness highlighted and guided her to her large algebraic talent and success. To this day, we remember her for building the foundations later major mathematicians would use worldwide; however, her exact inventions are lost to time, at least to us.
Baghdad is the home of judge Abu Abdallah al-Hussein. Here you will find his daughter, Sutayta al-Mahamali (d. 987), as renowned for her legal mind as for her mathematical mastery, a woman of genius widely celebrated as such by her culture, praised for her abilities by three of the era’s greatest historians, and today sadly reduced to the status of a historical footnote
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Minorities in the Field of Mathematics

Muslim Women fall in the intersection of both people of color and women, and thus, students are likely to harbor negative stereotypes of female Muslim mathematicians. The Venn Diagram below categorizes mathematicians by race and gender -- those who are racial minorities (i.e., blacks) fall in the blue circle, whereas those who are gender minorities (i.e., women) fall in the orange circle. Muslim Women, being a subset of both minorities, fall in the intersection.
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Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzhakani, famous for her many contributions to areas in topology and geometry, was quite the recent mathematician, who died on the 14th of July 2017. She was a great mathematician who taught at Stanford University.
Born in Tehran, Mirzakhani studied mathematics at Sharif University of Technology there before coming to the U.S. to get a PhD at Harvard University in 2004. As she told Quanta Magazine in 2014, she did not grow up wanting to become a mathematician. As a child, she loved to read and make up stories and thought she might be a writer. But despite some discouraging classes in middle school, she eventually discovered a passion for mathematics and proved brilliant at it.