ghumari later travelled to fas for his higher education, but then enrolled in the university of al-karaouine. while there, he also studied mosque of uqba, a unesco world heritage site and important seat of muslim religious learning. during his study, ghumari's teachers covered a number of books considered canonical in sunni islam, al-qastallani's explanation of sahih al-bukhari and the works of khalil ibn ishaq al-jundi being two examples. eventually, ghumari switched from karaouine to al-azhar university in 1930 and graduating the next year. during his education, ghumari was a student of al-kawthari, of whom ghumari would later hold extremely negative views.