The General Directorate of Traffic for Cairo announced the complete closure of the lower Al-Azhar Bridge (Ahmed Maher), specifically the direction traveling from Bab El Sha’reya to Bab El Khalk, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar reveals that Al Azhar University in Egypt has expressed ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Cairo has announced the official opening of the Indonesian language program at the Faculty of Language and Translation of Universitas Al ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A 27-year old alumnus of Darul-Kitab Wa Sunnah College of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Gaa-Akanbi, Ilorin, Kwara State, Muhammadul-Awwal Babatunde, has emerged as the best graduating student at the ...

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 ...