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 ...

A Muslim prays during Maghrib (evening) prayer on the night of the Hijri New Year, also known as Islamic new year (Ras al-Sanah al-Hijriya), at Al Azhar mosque in old Cairo on Nov. 14, 2012.

Al-Azhar mosque, one of the most famous and oldest in the world, will undergo restoration- though not for the first time . Monday, 14 July 2025 French | عربي ; Home; Egypt.

Al-Azhar’s statement read: “Inheritance texts are definitive and not open to change or ijtihad.The call for creating a “personalized religiosity” is an encroachment on the Sharia, an ...

The communications revolution has long challenged the authority of religious institutions like Egypt’s millennium-old al-Azhar Mosque. For centuries, al-Azhar was a dominant voice on mainstream Sunni ...

The beginning of the institution that today combines the mosque and the university is starkly different from its modern-day form. In 988 AD, the first call to prayer echoed from the new Al-Azhar ...

President Abdul Fattah Al Sisi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb inaugurate the restoration of the Al-Azhar Mosque, which lasted 3 years on March 06, 2018 ...

Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, both the mosque and the university, are often seen as a distinguished part of contemporary Islamic history. The institute is also considered a reference to the ideal of moderate ...

Al Azhar pays all its students a regular salary (from $2 to $12 a month) instead of charging them tuition. It gets £350,000 a year from the Egyptian government, is also heavily endowed by wealthy ...

One of the world's leading Islamic clerics on Friday called for dialogue between the faith's two main currents to settle sectarian differences, in an address to religious leaders including Pope ...