In 2015, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi went to el Azhar and pressed the imams for a “religious revolution” to end terrorism to little avail. The grand sheikh has given him an opening.

Since 1961, al-Azhar’s top official — the grand sheik — has been appointed directly by Egypt’s president. For many Egyptians, al-Azhar became just one more tool of state control.

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.

El-Sayed Gamal El-Din, Thursday 1 Oct 2020. They are reducing opportunities for fruitful dialogue between the East and West and increasing hate speech among societies, El-Tayyeb said ...

Ahmed el-Tayeb, who holds a PhD in Islamic philosophy from the Sorbonne, is expected to be a better face for Egypt's Al Azhar University, which was once preeminent in the Sunni world.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has accused Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb and other clerics of failing to develop Egypt's religious discourse.

General view of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany.

Al-Azhar Park is ranked #14 out of 22 things to do in Cairo. ... Khan el-Khalili sits around a mile away, while downtown Cairo is about 3 miles to the west (as well as the nearest Metro stop).

Cairo (AsiaNews) – Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the world’s foremost Sunni Arab institution, solemnly asserted that Islam is not incompatible with religious pluralism, and ...

Haggard from loss of sleep, Farouk sought counsel of crabbed, pro-Axis Sheik Mustafa El-Maraghi, rector of the ancient Moslem University of El-Azhar. “You will not rest until you have shot a ...