Grand Mufti Ahmed al-Tayeb of Egypt’s al-Azhar University dismissed on Wednesday the principle, Osama al-Abed, amid student protesting after alleged food poisoning struck more than 500 students ...

President of Azhar University Salama Dawoud congratulated on Sunday Mufti of Egypt Shawki Allam over President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's decision to extend his mandate for one year. In a statement, ...

ISLAMABAD: Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar University in Egypt Dr Shawki Ibrahim said on Wednesday that only courts could declare a person infidel while the state was the only authority to declare jihad ...

Al-Azhar, an institution widely regarded as a source of Islamic jurisprudence, law, and customs, is set to open its first university branch outside its home country of Egypt, the official Emirati ...

Grand Mufti of Egypt Dr Nazir Mohamed Ayad, on the request of Federal Education Minister Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, announced the setting up of a campus of Al-Azhar University in Pakistan.

Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawky Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam said on Thursday any attack on the Al-Azhar Institution or its head, Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb, "undermines Egypt's security." Allam ...

Listen to article. Egyptian Grand Mufti Dr Nazir Mohamed Ayad announced on Friday that Al-Azhar University, one of the world's oldest and most esteemed centers of Islamic learning, will establish ...

Al-Azhar's rooting of the idea of unfairness in inheritance division, based on the logic that men deserve twice as much as women, leaves women without full entitlement, unlike men. This ...

Al-Azhar University was founded in Cairo, Egypt in 970 AD and despite not gaining university status until 1961, it is still technically among the world’s oldest universities. For over a millennium, it ...