You’re still treating disagreement over classification as if it must stem from prejudice. That leap is doing most of the rhetorical work here.

It’s not a leap, it’s a clear implication of your argument that you’re refusing to address.

Prejudice is not necessarily conscious.

My original point referenced two things:

Its founding as a mosque-centered institution of religious learning

Its formal modern accreditation occurring in the 20th century

Neither of those statements automatically equals “therefore it wasn’t legitimate before Europeans approved it.” That’s an inference you’re adding.

Your post referenced those things with the implication that they disqualified al-Qarawiyyin as a university before the 20th century.

You accuse me of shifting definitions, but the definition has actually been consistent: a university in the historical sense is a corporate, self-governing body of scholars with juridical recognition and degree-granting authority embedded in a defined institutional structure.

Okay, would you mind telling me where in that definition your original points of

Its founding as a mosque-centered institution of religious learning

Its formal modern accreditation occurring in the 20th century

Have anything to do with that definition?

Or have the goalposts changed, and you just don’t want to admit it.

Suggesting that mentioning 20th-century accreditation implies “White Man recognition”

Suggesting that before 20th century accreditation it wasn’t a ‘real’ university, when accreditation is a fairly late development of European civilization absolutely implies that

Assuming structural debate equals dismissal of Muslim polities

Again, it’s not ‘structural debate’, the dismissal of Muslim polities is inherent to your argument, and I legitimately don’t know if you’re a chud who knows this, or legitimately too blinkered to see it.

Treating definitional precision as prejudice

Also again, this is anything but precise. Every point I’ve addressed wherein al-Qarawiyyin has all the aspects of a European university, you’ve ignored in favor of whinging about your prejudice being called it.

Is the term “university” being used: A) descriptively, for any long-standing institution of higher learning that granted advanced credentials or B) technically, for a specific institutional form that originated in medieval Europe and has identifiable structural markers?

Fuck’s sake, this literally and explicitly contradicts your prior arguments.