Al-Azhar

Abbas Shouman, Al-Azhar undersecretary, stressed Thursday that Al-Azhar senior scholars unanimously reject displaying films that are incompatible with religious values…

Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb said that the Al-Azhar is launching a satellite channel in three months to counter radical and…

Student protesters at Al-Azhar University detained Al-Masry Al-Youm photojournalist Omar Saher Sunday during on-campus clashes between supporters and opponents of…

Qatar-based Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy resigned from his seat at al-Azhar’s Senior Scholars Committee to protest the al-Azhar Grand Sheikh’s stance on political developments in…

Cairo’s misdemeanor court sentenced on Wednesday twelve pro-Mosry students from Al-Azhar University to 17 years in prison on charges related…

Grand Mufti of Egypt Shawky Allam has rejected removing an article in the Constitution which states that senior religious scholars…

Al-Azhar, the highest religious institution in the Sunni Muslim world, said it had agreed with Egyptian churches to maintain Egypt’s…

Al-Azhar, which is considered the largest Islamic institution in the Sunni Muslim world, expressed in a statement on Sunday its…

Al-Azhar, Egypt's leading Sunni Islam authority, has urged the Muslim Brotherhood to renounce violence as protesters continue to engage in…

Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Gehad al-Haddad has said that the Islamist group is willing to negotiate a way out of Egypt's…