The Ten Most Corrupt Countries In The World
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Notably, the world's first university was founded in 859 A.D. by a Moroccan woman, Fatima al-Fihri.
http://collegestats.org/articles/2009/12/top-10-oldest-universities-in-the-world-ancient-colleges/
I conjecture that the dilapidated state of contemporary Islamic nations is due to the displacement of "open inquiry scholarship" by an epistemological shutdown wrought by a wave of Islamic scriptural literalism much like the biblical literalism that first infected Christian nations during the late 19th century.
"The History of Biblical Literalism" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-history-of-biblical-literalism.html
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