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 ...

CAIRO — Egyptian police fired tear gas Sunday in an attempt to disperse supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president protesting at the dormitories of an Islamic university in Cairo. Students ...

Supporters of the Palestinian Fatah movement shout slogans during a rally marking the tenth anniversary of late Palestinian leader and founder of the movement Yasser Arafat in front of Al-Azhar ...

Al-Mu’tasim Billah, Sufyan al-Omari ann ed Omar al-Masri are 21-year-old students at Cairo’s al-Azhar University, the oldest and most prestigious institute of Sunni Islamic learning in the world. But ...

Following a car bombing and explosives discovery in Faridabad, Al-Falah University's website was hacked, with the perpetrators condemning 'radical Islamic activities'.

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ROME — A leading scholar in the Arab world has applauded the goodwill of both the Vatican and the prestigious Islamic Al-Azhar University Pope Francis will visit for aiming to increase Catholic-Muslim ...

A leading scholar in the Arab world has applauded the goodwill of both the Vatican and the prestigious Islamic al-Azhar university Pope Francis will visit for aiming to increase Catholic-Muslim ...

CAIRO – Muis and Al-Azhar University, which has trained every Mufti of Singapore, on Sept 22 renewed their agreement for the institution to continue training potential Islamic religious teachers from ...

The Vatican and Sunni Islam's leading institution of higher learning have begun looking for ways to restart formal dialogue. Acting on Pope Francis' expressed desire, the Pontifical Council for ...

The Vatican and one of Islam's most renowned schools of Sunni thought are joining forces to discuss how they can work together in combating religious extremism that uses God's name to justify violence ...

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