Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb stressed on Tuesday the need for an international consensus on human rights ...

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A student who was on the verge of turning down an offer to study medicine at Al-Azhar University in Egypt due to financial constraints may now be able to pursue his dream after the Majlis Amanah ...

Al-Azhar University in Cairo has trained scholars in Sunni Islamic law for more than a millennium. Over the last two centuries, however, its authority has declined, undermined by Islamism and the ...

It is a mosque and university in Cairo, Egypt. It was built by Jawhar the Sicilian writer (Elias al-Siqali), the commander of Abu Tamim’s army, a year after the Fatimid’s conquered Egypt, and ...

After five years of tension and top-level silence, Pope Francis and the grand imam of one of the most important Sunni Muslim universities in the world embraced at the Vatican May 23. "The meeting is ...

The Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism has welcomed Canada’s adoption of a new expanded law to combat hate crimes, ...

UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan received His Eminence Professor Dr Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, at Qasr Al Shati ...

In his speech at Al-Azhar university in Cairo today, Pope Francis placed an emphasis on education, drawing attention to Egypt’s ancient civilization that valued open-minded education and saying a ...

CAIRO — They came by the thousands, pouring through the ancient stone archways and into the gleaming white marble courtyard of al-Azhar mosque. The faithful had come to pray, to hear a thundering ...