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Egypttoday
April 12, 2018
De Sousa arrived at Al Azhar headquarters earlier in the day accompanied by a high-level delegation. The Portuguese president toured Al Azhar mosque then headed for Al Azhar University where he gave a lecture on East-West relations. The Portuguese president arrived here on Wednesday on his firstÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
April 12, 2018
CAIRO, April 12 (KUNA) -- Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Thursday demanded necessarily combating "Islamophobia" and all barriers impeding interfaith dialogue. This came during a speech delivered by de Sousa at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, in the presence of Grand Imam ofÃâà...
Egypttoday
April 11, 2018
CAIRO – 11 April 2018: Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will meet Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayeb on Thursday as part of his visit to Egypt from Wednesday to Friday. On the sidelines of his meeting, the Portuguese president will take a tour of Al-Azhar Mosque, accompanied byÃâà...
ChronicleLive
April 7, 2018
Abdula, a speaker at the Al Azhar Mosque in South Shields, is concerned violent far-right extremists are rarely referred to as terrorists, which leads to people believing the greatest threat comes from radical Muslims. “What we tend to find is when it does attract the headlines it will not be attributed to far-rightÃâà...
Tempo.co
April 6, 2018
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The biggest problem currently facing the Muslim community according to Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla is economy. “Economy is the only issue that the Muslim community lacks,” said the vice president today during his lecture at the Al Azhar mosque in South Jakarta.
Egypttoday
April 3, 2018
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman inaugurated Al-Azhar Mosque on Tuesday after its three-year maintenance and restoration works were completed. During his meeting with Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb, Bin Salman reportedly insisted on the significance ofÃâà...
Tempo.co
April 3, 2018
A few days after meeting with former Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Gatot Nurmantyo at the Al-Azhar Mosque, South Jakarta, on March 3, Rama Yumatha received a visitor. The guest asked him questions about his background, and who was behind the Selendang Putih Nusantara Volunteers,Ãâà...
Qantara.de
March 30, 2018
Recently, the guardians of the faith at Cairoʹs Al-Azhar mosque have threatened to strike Tunisia off the list of Islamic countries if it carries on with its programme of democratic modernisation "at the cost of Islam". Last summer, President Essebi called Charfi into the newly-founded political commission onÃâà...
Egypttoday
March 25, 2018
CAIRO – 26 March 2018: About 60 million Egyptians are to begin casting their ballots on Monday, and continue for three consecutive days, to elect the country's next president, in a race pitting the incumbent president Abdel Fatah Al Sisi against El Ghad party chairperson Moussa Moustafa Moussa.
Ahram Online
March 22, 2018
Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. Abdel-Fattah Said Hussein Al-Sisi was born on 19 November 1954 in Cairo. He grew up in the Gammaliya district, near the Al-Azhar Mosque, in a quarter where Muslims, Jews and Christians resided. He later recalled how, during his childhood, he heard church bells and watched JewsÃâà...
The Guardian
March 20, 2018
Cotton skeins are being transported to the roof of the workshop to be dried further in. Most craftsmen and women are immersed in their history, reviving elements of their culture each day. Inside the workshop of two bookbinders near Cairo's al-Azhar mosque, Aslam and his colleague bind 150 books a day.
africanews
March 19, 2018
Founded as a centre of Islamic learning where students studied the Qur'an and Islamic law in detail, along with logic, grammar, rhetoric, and how to calculate the phases of the moon, Al Azhar transformed into a modern university including secular subjects in the curriculum. Associated with Al-Azhar MosqueÃâà...
Ahram Online
March 7, 2018
President Abdul Fattah Al Sisi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb inaugurate the restoration of the Al-Azhar Mosque, which lasted 3 years on March 06, 2018 (A handout photo made available by the Azhar Media Center)Ãâà...
Arab News
March 6, 2018
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt's president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inspect the Al-Azhar Mosque after the first phase of restoration, funded by Saudi Arabia. (SPA). Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt's president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inspect the Al-Azhar Mosque afterÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 6, 2018
The restoration process carried out under the patronage of King Salman bin Abdulaziz included the complete transformation and modernization of Al Azhar mosque infrastructure, including flooring, lighting, water, drainage, ventilation and sound systems in accordance with the latest international standardsÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 5, 2018
“The ongoing coordination between Cairo and Riyadh supports efforts to counter terrorism and extremism,” they told Asharq Al-Awsat. Al-Azhar announced that Prince Mohammed and Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi will inaugurate on Tuesday the renovation work at the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo.
Qantara.de
December 31, 1999
Recently, the guardians of the faith at Cairoʹs Al-Azhar mosque have threatened to strike Tunisia off the list of Islamic countries if it carries on with its programme of democratic modernisation "at the cost of Islam". Last summer, President Essebi called Charfi into the newly-founded political commission onÃâà...
Hyperallergic
December 31, 1999
The Cairo scholar al-Jabarti admired the great learning of the French, but he also described the destructiveness of Napoleon's army in Cairo: they demolished tombs, shrines, and palaces, and damaged the great al-Azhar mosque. CaptMondo, “Abydos Table in the British Museum” (2008) (via WikimediaÃâà...
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