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Maghreb

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1Which historic mosque in the Maghreb is pictured?

What is shown in the picture?

Great Mosque of Algiers (Algeria)

Az-Zaytuna in Tunis (Tunisia)

Al-Qarawiyyin of Fez (Morocco)

The Great Mosque of Kairouan (Tunisia)

2Which scholar was not from the Maghreb?

Al-Idrisi

Ibn Battuta

Al-Khwarizmi

Ibn Khaldun

3Where did the Italian mathematician Fibonacci learn the (western) Arabic numerals that most of the world uses today?

Arabic numerals in the book Liber Abaci

In Marrakesh (Morocco)

In Tunis (Tunisia)

In Béjaïa (Algeria)

In Palermo (Sicily) since it had once been ruled by Muslims.

4Which historic minaret is not in North Africa?

Three minarets

The left one as it is a minaret of the great mosque of Damascus (Syria)

The right one as it a minaret of the Sultan Ahmed mosque in Istanbul (Turkey)

The left one as it is the minaret of the Kaylan mosque in Bukhara (Uzbekistan)

The middle one as it is the remaining minaret of the great mosque of Seville (Spain)

5It is regarded as the oldest continuously operating institution of higher learning in the world. What is its name?

What is shown in the picture?

The Kutubiyya Mosque of Marrakesh (Morocco)

Az-Zaytuna in Tunis (Tunisia)

The Great Mosque of Algiers (Algeria)

Al-Qarawiyyin of Fez (Morocco)

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