Al-Azhar

A newly launched social media platform called Muslimface, which describes itself as “Sharia friendly”, recently announced the wedding of two…

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has openly rejected some peoples' tendency to link Islam with terrorism, urging instead that people…

The administrative court in Alexandria upheld on Monday an earlier decision that had been made by the Grand Sheikh of…

An al-Azhar professor has said that what he called “intellectuals” should not be engaged in debates over the reforms that…

Leading Muslim clerics meeting in Cairo on Tuesday called for moderation in issuing religious edicts, in an attempt to counter…

Al-Azhar has condemned Amnesty International’s recent move to push for decriminalization of sex workers, calling it “satanic”, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports. In…

Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed El-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar, received a media delegation from the United Arab Emirates headed by His…

Al-Azhar has condemned the terrorist bombings which occurred on the Turkish border district of Suruc in the southeastern province of…

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has renewed his call for revolutionizing the understanding of Islam to counter terrorist and extremist thought,…

Caliphate rule is not a pillar of Islam, but rather an organizational option, the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayyeb…