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 ...

In November 2023, Al-Azhar University shared the before and after images in a Facebook post detailing the destruction that took place on the university campus after bombardment from Israel.

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 ...

Al Azhar’s edicts were once heeded from Morocco to Indonesia, but the Cairo institution has lost clout as TV imams are reaching larger audiences and Egypt’s President Mubarak has taken greater ...

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 ...

On al-Azhar University’s main campus — a palm-tree-fringed idyll amid Cairo’s frenetic urban sprawl — students say the Brotherhood and the Nour party are both ascendant.

The head of Egypt's al-Azhar university, one of the world's leading Islamic seats of learning, has been replaced after labelling a controversial Muslim reformer an apostate, the institution said.

Al-Azhar University on Wednesday decided to suspend the activities of student unions and ban protests on campus, calling on the Interior Ministry to enforce the order. In a statement, the ...

One of the most influential Muslims in Egypt, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al Azhar University and former Grand Mufti of the country called the murders an act of “brutal terrorism.” ...

Al-Azhar University (photo: Waj via Shutterstock) ELISE HARRIS/CNA/EWTN NEWS World April 28, 2017. ROME — A leading scholar in the Arab world has applauded the goodwill of both the Vatican and ...

Cairo Nearly 500 students from Cairo's Al-Azhar university have been admitted to hospital with food poisoning, a senior health official said on Tuesday. Nearly 500 students from Cairo's Al-Azhar ...