Fatima al-Fihri
Fatima al-Fihri is traditionally remembered as the founder of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, a mosque that developed over centuries into one of the Islamic world’s great centres of learning.
Trotula-of-Salerno
Trotula of Salerno is a name attached to influential medieval medical texts on women’s health. Whether one woman, several writers, or a textual tradition, her legacy reveals how women’s medical knowledge entered—and later blurred within—the written record.