Al-Azhar

Egypt’s Grand Imam of Azhar Ahmed al-Tayyeb headed to Germany on Tuesday for medical examinations on his back and to…

Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa, the government’s principal Islamic legal institution for issuing fatwas (religious edicts), said on Wednesday that sexual harassment…

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb received on Monday Immigration Minister Nabila Makram to discuss an initiative titled “Egypt: the Beginning…

Pope Tawadros II received Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, along with the Al-Azhar leaders, at the papal headquarters of the…

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb met on Tuesday with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his visit to Cairo, where they…

Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s most prestigious religious institution, announced on Friday that it would establish a unit called “Bayan”…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top Muslim cleric has stirred up controversy after saying that polygamy is an “injustice” for women,…

Egyptian parliament Mohamed Fouad submitted a draft bill with the House of Representatives to amend Law No. 103 for 1961…

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday welcomed President of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, a representative…

As part of the role played between the World Organization for Al-Azhar Graduates and Franciscan monks in Egypt, the “Dialogue of…