Madrasa Asfouria

Madrasa Asfouria (Arabic: المدرسة العصفورية) is one of the madrasahs of the medina of Tunis, which was constructed during the Hafsid era.

It stands only a few meters from the Al-Zaytuna Mosque.

It is named after the scholar Ibn Asfur El Ichbili [ar] from Seville, who taught at the madrasa.

Among its scholars, other than Ibn Asfur Ibn Ichbili, we can also name Sheikh Salah El Cherif before his departure to Damascus and the poet Muhammad Tahar Battikh.

Nowadays, it hosts the premises of five associations among which the Tunisian Association of Research and Studies on Tunisian Intellectual Heritage.