But in recent decades, al-Azhar has also been sullied by its affiliation with a string of Egyptian leaders who used the institution’s good name to give their policies a religious blessing. Since ...

Al-Azhar Mosque, meaning " the Mosque of the Most Resplendent ... Fatemi in 972 for the newly established capital of Egypt, Al-Qahira (Cairo). The mosque was previously restored in 2011 and ...

In the year 969, he founded the city of Cairo, whose name comes from al-Qahira, “the victorious ... Corrao explains to Al Arabiya. Al-Azhar Mosque was considered the favorite of the emirs ...

In the Al-Hussein quarter in Islamic Cairo, the historic Mosque and University of A-Azhar stands welcoming worshippers, students and visitors. The edifice, re-opened by President Abdel-Fattah Al ...

Matt Bradley in Cairo reports: At Cairo's eminent Al Azhar mosque, the seat of Sunni Islamic learning and one of the oldest institutions of religious teaching in the world, regular noon prayers ...

Egypt’s Al-Azhar Mosque announced Sunday that prayers at the mosque during the last ten days of Ramadan will be performed without public attendance, instead being broadcast on the mosque’s official ...

and enters Al Azhar mosque. There he joins one of the attentive circles of cross-legged students gathered at the feet of a sheikh (elder, i.e., teacher), who leans against a pillar and expounds ...

CAIRO | When President Obama addresses the Muslim world from Cairo next month, Egyptian officials hope he will choose the 1,000-year-old Al-Azhar Mosque, the heart of a revered institution for ...