Al-Azhar Mosque is one of most famous among many historical mosques in Islamic Cairo in Egypt. Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah of the Fatimid Caliphate commissioned its construction for the newly established ...
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 ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - In his battle against militant Islam, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is relying not just on bomber planes and soldiers but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1 ...