Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam has issued a new fatwa reaffirming that women should inherit half the share of men, citing Islamic tradition, a move that critics say entrenches gender inequality in Egypt’s ...

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Sharif, the world’s most prominent Sunni Islamic institution, on Thursday warned of what it described as an unprecedented ...

Egypt’s government exercises substantial control of the Al-Azhar mosque and university [EPA] The controversy surrounding the legacy of Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the head of the Al-Azhar mosque ...

Al-Azhar University in Cairo has trained scholars in Sunni Islamic law for more than a millennium. Over the last two centuries, however, its authority has declined, undermined by Islamism and the ...

Document On Human Fraternity Signed in UAE Agreement To Help Bring an End to Conflicts and Fight Extremism ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--His Holiness Pope Francis and His Eminence ...

CAIRO — Two armored vehicles are stationed at the entrance to the al-Azhar campus in Cairo’s Medina al-Nasr neighborhood. A kneeling policeman prays on the lawn while, in his sentry box, a guard asks ...

Egypt’s leading Islamic authority, Al-Azhar, came under criticism this week after it abruptly removed a strongly worded statement condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza from its official social media ...

Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Sheikh of the prestigious Al-Azhar institute, did not equivocate when responding to the 2015 Paris attacks: “We denounce this hateful incident. The time has come for ...

After five years of tension and top-level silence, Pope Francis and the grand imam of one of the most important Sunni Muslim universities in the world embraced at the Vatican May 23. "The meeting is ...

CAIRO — They came by the thousands, pouring through the ancient stone archways and into the gleaming white marble courtyard of al-Azhar mosque. The faithful had come to pray, to hear a thundering ...

It is a mosque and university in Cairo, Egypt. It was built by Jawhar the Sicilian writer (Elias al-Siqali), the commander of Abu Tamim’s army, a year after the Fatimid’s conquered Egypt, and ...