Founded in 970 or 972 by the Fatimid Caliphate as a centre of Islamic learning, its students studied the Qur'an and Islamic law, along with logic, grammar, rhetoric, and how to calculate the phases of the …

Al-Azhar University, chief center of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world, built around the mosque of that name in the medieval quarter of Cairo. Founded about 972 ce, it is considered the foremost …

Al-Azhar University is the oldest degree-awarding university of its kind, located in Cairo, Egypt, and serves as the leading centre for Islamic and Arabic education. Founded in the 1960s as a religious …

It is the only ancient university in the Arabic world to survive as a modern university by including secular subjects in the curriculum. It now offers programmes in business, economics, science, medicine, …

As per Al-Azhar resolution issued by the Supreme Council of Al-Azhar, in its session No. 245 on Jan. 1, 2018, the CEDEFS founding was approved, while Professor Nahla As-Sa‛idi was appointed as …

Al-Azhar University, located in Cairo, Egypt, is the largest international Islamic scholarly institution in the world and the third oldest university in the world after Al-Zaytuna and Al-Qarawiyyin University.

Officially recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education of Egypt, Al-Azhar University is a very large coeducational Egyptian higher education institution formally affiliated with the Islamic religion.