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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Al-Azhar Al-Sharif strongly condemned the statements of an Israeli official supporting the establishment of a Jewish synagogue inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Azhar stressed in a statement on Monday ...

Egypt’s Al-Azhar, a leading Islamic institution, condemned on Sunday the stabbing and killing of a Muslim worshipper in a southern France mosque, warning of escalating “white terrorism” in ...