• The Al-Azhar University (/ˈɑːzhɑːr/ AHZ-har; Egyptian Arabic: جامعة الأزهر (الشريف), IPA: [ˈɡæmʕet elˈʔɑzhɑɾ eʃʃæˈɾiːf], lit. 'University of (the honorable)...
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    Al-Azhar Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الأزهر, romanized: al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit. 'The Resplendent Congregational Mosque', Egyptian Arabic: جامع الأزهر, romanized: Gāmiʿ...
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    Islamic Research Academy Al-Azhar Mosque Al-Azhar University City of Islamic Resurrections Azhar institutes Al-Azhar Library Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating...
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  • The Grand Imam of al-Azhar (Arabic: الإمام الأكبر), also known as Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar (Arabic: شيخ الأزهر الشريف), currently Ahmed el-Tayeb, is a...
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    Al-Azhar Park (Arabic: حديقة الأزهر) is a public park located in qism al-Darb al-Ahmar, in Historic Cairo, Egypt. Among several honors, this park is listed...
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  • Al-Azhar (Arabic: الأزهر al-azhar) is a mosque founded in Cairo. It may also refer to: Al-Azhar Al Sharif, an Islamic scientific body and the largest religious...
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  • Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Arabic: جامعة الأزهر بغزة), often abbreviated AUG, is a Palestinian, public, non-profit, and independent higher education institution...
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    the acclaimed al-Badawi Mosque in Tanta. He later joined Al-Azhar University in Cairo and was conferred with diploma in al-Qirāʾāt al-ʿAshar (Arabic:...
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  • article Faculties of Al-Azhar University. Al-Azhar University includes the following faculties:(Directory of Faculties of Al-Azhar University according...
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    in Cairo, was an Egyptian Sunni religious scholar and a Grand Imam of Al-Azhar. He was one of the six Grand Imams who held this position twice, once between...
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    Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Al-Azhar Al Sharif and former president of al-Azhar University. He was appointed by the Egyptian...
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    Ahmed. "Al-Azhar refuses to consider the Islamic State an apostate". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. The sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed...
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  • him, paying for his living expenses, to further his education in Al-Azhar, Cairo. Al-Sha'rawi wanted to stay with his brothers to cultivate land. Trying...
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    their studies at the Al-Azhar University. As of 2007 and 2008, there are 8272 Al-Azhar schools in Egypt. In the early 2000s, Al-Azhar schools accounted for...
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  • Mohammad Masood Azhar Alvi (born 10 July or 7 August 1968) is a radical Islamist and terrorist, being the founder and leader of the Pakistan-based terrorist...
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    in Jableh, Syrian province of the Ottoman Empire in 1882. He studied at Al-Azhar University in Egypt and afterward became an Islamic revivalist preacher...
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    where he joined al-Kazimiyah school, he returned to Damascus, finally, he decided to live in Cairo. Al-Qasemi has studied at the Al-Azhar University in...
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    Islamic law from Al-Azhar University, and then he took his doctorate from the same university. In 1979, he became an imam of Al-Masjid al-Nabawi. In 1981...
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  • The post of Grand Imam of al-Azhar, or shaykh of al-Azhar, has been filled by a member of the ulema, the religious scholars, of Egypt. The position of...
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    plan. Both cities had mosques named al-Azhar after Muhammad's daughter, Fatima al-Azhar, and both had gates named Bab al-Futuh and Bab Zuwaila. Both cities...
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  • He was officially appointed as a teacher at the al-Azhar Mosque in 1946 by the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar at the time, though he had been teaching there...
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  • Al-Azhar Memorial Garden is an Islamic cemetery and a business unit of the Al-Azhar Islamic Foundation (YPI Al-Azhar) that has provided Islamic funeral...
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    Egypt's top Islamic school and the world's leading school of Sunni Islam, Al-Azhar University, banned the wearing of the niqāb in all-female classrooms and...
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    celebratory procession which made its way from al-Azhar to al-Anwar and from al-Anwar back to al-Azhar.[citation needed] The mosque originally stood outside...
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    Quran (redirect from Al-Quran al-karim)
    Retrieved 15 August 2024. Academy, Ulum Al-Azhar (13 August 2024). "What Is Ahruf And Qirat? | A Full Guide - Ulum Al Azhar". Retrieved 15 August 2024. "Background...
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    al-Muizz street, between Bab al-Futuh and al-Azhar street: Mosque of Al Hakim bi Amr Allah (1013) Mosque of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar (1839) Bayt al-Suhaymi...
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    Egyptian-Ottoman scholar, theologian and a dean of the al-Azhar University. A follower of Imam Al-Shafiʽi, he authored over 20 works and commentaries in...
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    Nasser forced al-Azhar to issue a fatwā admitting Shia Muslims, Alawites, and Druze into mainstream Islam; for centuries prior, al-Azhar deemed them to...
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    Scholars" (haiʾat kibār al-ʿulamāʾ), among whom the Grand Imam of al-Azhar is elected. Zitouna University in Tunisia and University of al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco...
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    considered al-Husseini his pupil, and refers to him in a letter. In 1912 he studied Islamic law briefly at Al-Azhar University in Cairo and at the Dar al-Da'wa...
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