Karouin University was founded in 245 A.D. (859 A.D.)Islamic schools, whose history is more than that of the mother of European universitiesuniversity of bologna More than 200 years earlier, it is the oldest university in the world and recognized as the oldest degree awarding university by the Guinness Book of World Records. It has schools of Islamic law, Arabic language and literature, theology and philosophy, and Islamic Research Institute. This university is also a mosque. The earliest teaching method is that scholars explain the Koran to believers.