Madaurus University

The Madaurus University (in Latin Madaurus, Madauros or Madaura)^[1] is a former university, one of the first on the African continent, of which only ruins remain, located in the city of M'daourouch in the wilaya of Souk Ahras in Algeria. Madaurus University is often considered the oldest university in Africa and an early center of higher learning in North Africa, the university's construction dating back to the Roman era around 75 AD.^{[2] [3] [4]}

It was on the site of an ancient Numidian city from the third century BC that the Roman city of Madauros was founded in 75 AD under the Flavians.^[5] Its early public functions date from the Roman period between the 1st and 2nd centuries.^{[6] [7] [8] [9]} The city is mentioned in ancient manuscripts from the third century, but fell into decay following the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the seventh century.^{[10] [11]}

At the time, the university was considered a great centre of cultural influence^[12] and frequented by great men of letters, philosophers, mathematicians and rhetoricians of the ancient world such as the North African Christian theologian and philosopher Saint Augustine, the Numidian writer, orator and philosopher Apuleius (author of the Metamorphoses or the Golden Ass), the Roman orator and grammarian Maximus of Madaurus, and the writer, poet, music theorist and philosopher Martianus Capella.^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]}

• Stéphane Gsell, Mdaourouch, 1922. Histoire ancienne de l'Afrique du Nord en 8 tomes, Inscriptions de Madaure, ibid., p. CLXX-CLXXIV [1].
• Ibn Khaldoun, Histoire des Berbères (traduit de l'arabe par le Baron de Slane), tome I, Alger, 1852-1856.
• Peter Brown (2001). La Vie de saint Augustin (in French). Paris: Seuil. p. 675. ISBN 978-2-02-038617-3..
• Hunink, Vincent (2001). Apuleius of Madauros: Florida.. Amsterdam: Gieben. p. 258. ISBN 978-90-5063-218-8..
• Christophe Charle; Jacques Verger (2012). Histoire des Universités (in French). PUF. p. 331.
• Vincent Serralda; André Huard (1984). Le Berbère-- lumière de l'Occident (in French). Nouvelles Editions Latines. p. 171. ISBN 978-2-7233-0239-5..
• Mahfoud Kaddache (1972). L'Algérie dans l'Antiquité (in French). Alger: SNED. p. 226. ISBN 978-2-0125-6551-7.
• Serge Lancel (2003). l'Algérie antique (in French). Paris: éditions Mengès. p. 260. ISBN 285620421X.
• Mahfoud Kaddache (2003). L'Algérie des Algériens (in French). Paris: Paris-Méditerranée. p. 785. ISBN 2-8427-2166-7..

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