In the Al-Hussein quarter in Islamic Cairo, the historic Mosque and University of A-Azhar stands welcoming worshippers, students and visitors. The edifice, re-opened by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi ...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar mosque and university, called on Muslims in the Middle East to "embrace" local Christian communities. He addressed ...

Less than two months after one of Sunni Islam's highest authorities came to the Vatican following several years of icy relations, Pope Francis has sent a representative to Egypt's Al-Azhar University ...

The Egyptian grand sheikh's retraction under state pressure dashed hopes for moral clarity amid genocide, revealing how Muslim religious authorities remain gripped by fear, silence Ahmed al-Tayeb, ...

The communications revolution has long challenged the authority of religious institutions like Egypt’s millennium-old al-Azhar Mosque. For centuries, al-Azhar was a dominant voice on mainstream Sunni ...

Abu al-Dahab Mosque is located towards Al-Azhar mosque. It is also one of the Hanging mosques that has been built near the road level, and there are shops below its destinations. Abu al-Dahab Mosque ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's seat of Islamic learning, al-Azhar, will launch a satellite channel to give the world a better understanding of Islam and counter some Islamic outlets preaching "extremist ...