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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But within Egypt and across the region, the real source of fears that the country is careening toward theocracy lies in an unlikely place: the ancient stone corridors of al-Azhar, a Cairo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Know more • Al-Azhar is one of the oldest and most prestigious Islamic institutions in the world, established in Cairo, Egypt, more than 1,000 years ago . It began as a mosque and later evolved ...

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 ...