Several renowned personalities studied there, as the precursors of Sufism Ibn Hrizim, Abou Ben Abdeslam Madyane or Mchich Alami, the renowned geographer Al Idrissi and philosophers Avempace and Averroes, and Maimonides and Ibn Khaldoun, among many others. Today the Al-Qaraouine is the largest mosque in all of northern Africa, which can accommodate more than 20,000…