Kairouan (tun)

Kairouan

Kairouan ranks 1,907th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Babruysk, Lakewood, Ohio, and Naberezhnye Chelny. Memorable people born in Kairouan include Fatima al-Fihri, Najla Bouden, and Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri. Memorable people who died in Kairouan include Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, and Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab. Kairouan has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many philosophers, and politicians. Kairouan is located in Tunisia.

Kairouan, also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan, is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was founded by the Umayyads around 670, in the period of Caliph Mu'awiya ; this is when it became an important centre for Sunni Islamic scholarship and Quranic learning, attracting Muslims from various parts of the world. The Mosque of Uqba is situated in the city. Read more on Wikipedia