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Al-Azhar University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Al-Azhar University (Arabic: الأزهرالشريف; al-Azhar al-Shareef, "the Noble al-Azhar"), is connected to the mosque in Cairo named to honor Fatima Az-Zahraa, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him), from whom the Fatimid Dynasty claimed descent. This is a joint venture between the university and the HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum IT Education Project (ITEP) in Dubai. Ali Gomaa', the Egyptian Mufti associated with Al Azhar, has declared that insurgents who kidnap and kill civilans in Iraq are the ones which Islam has authorized to thwart and eradicate since they wreak havoc in the Earth. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Azhar_University   (674 words)

Al-Azhar University, Cairo The University of Al-Azhar is always attempting to create a kind of intellectual unity between Muslims everywhere in the Islamic world, it also works hard to cement and strengthen their relationship and sharpen their loyalty to the Islamic faith. Al-Azhar university concerns itself with the religious syllabus, which pays special attention to the Quranic sciences and traditions of the prophet, on the one hand, while on the other, university teaches all the modern scientific fields of science. The University is also keen to remain a guiding light for Islam and stronghold for the Arab nation, inculcating the Islamic teaching in the hearts and minds of Muslims, safeguarding its language, serving its objectives and aims, reforming its cultural heritage, and illuminating it for the benefit of mankind. www.islamfortoday.com /alazhar.htm   (1808 words)

Books page As a professor at Al Azhar University, the oldest and most famous and conservative religious university in the Sunni Muslim world, I wrote five books in 1985 to reform the religious life of the Sunni Muslims. From 1977-1980, I endured three years of persecution inside Al Azhar University, I was persecuted because my PH, D was considered against the sacred Sufi saints, their tradition, and it showed their corruption and vices from inside their own scriptures. Al Azhar is not prepared to discard that tradition which includes, according to Mansour,many Hadith(sayings of the prophet) that do not really originate with Mohammed but were attributed to him by posterity. www.arabtimes.com /Mixed7/doc68.html   (9219 words)

Al-Azhar University - Gaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Al-Azhar University - Gaza is a Palestinian university established in 1992 in Gaza City (Palestine) This university or other tertiary education institution article is a stub. This page was last modified 18:18, 2 March 2006. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Azhar_University_-_Gaza   (71 words)

Dr. Said Ramadan al-Buti University in 1960, and deputed to Al-Azhar University to attain doctorate in the roots of the Islamic law. M. Sa’id Ramadan Al-Buti is the Head of the Beliefs and Religions Department in The Faculty of the Islamic Law, Damascus University Damascus University in 1965, as a deputy of the college later on and as its dean in the end. www.sunnah.org /history/Scholars/Dr_Said_R_Buti.htm   (377 words)

Al The above Fatwa was announced on July 6, 1959 from the Head of al-Azhar University, and was subsequently published in many publications in the Middle East which include, but are not limited to: al-Sha'ab newspaper (Egypt), issue of July 7, 1959. Their jurists (Mujtahidoon) are accepted by Almighty Allah, and it is permissible to the "non-Mujtahid" to follow them and to accord with their teaching whether in worship (Ibadaat) or transactions (Mu'amilaat). Muslims must know this, and ought to refrain from unjust prejudice to any particular school of thought, since the religion of Allah and His Divine Law (Shari'ah) was never restricted to a particular school of thought. www.al-huda.com /Article_4of22.htm   (591 words)

AL-AZHAR INSTITUTE All of this is done under the supervision of the secular staff and the leadership of 19 Sheikhs, who are all Alims from the University of Al­Azhar, Cairo. Remember, according to the Contract-Agreement between Al-Azhar University, Cairo and the Al-Azhar Institute, Cape Town, signed by the MJC, these Al-Azhari Sheikhs can­not charge you a single cent for teaching you the Quran and the Deen of Islam. We even refer to this university in matters of dispute amongst ourselves and accept their Fatwa. www.mjc.org.za /alazhar.htm   (1070 words)

UNICEF - Press centre - UNICEF and Al-Azhar University Present New Manual Designed to Underscore Importance of Children in Islam UNICEF and Al-Azhar University hope the information and messages contained in Children in Islam, Their Care, Protection and Development will be widely disseminated and used by a broad range of partners working in Islamic countries and communities including religious leaders, governments, the UN system, non-governmental organisations, media and others. An earlier publication by UNICEF and Al-Azhar University titled Child Care in Islam was published in 1984 and focused mainly on issues relating to the survival of young children. In addition to eminent representatives of Al-Azhar University and UNICEF, a number of Sharia scholars and one Arab member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child were among a wider group who reviewed and commented on the manual before it was finalised. www.unicef.org /media/media_30158.html   (846 words)

MIFTAH.ORG--PCHR Condemns Latest Incidents in al-Azhar University in Gaza and Calls upon Ministry of Education to Intervene to Protect the Educational Process at the University PCHR is deeply concerned at latest incidents that have taken place in al-Azhar University in Gaza City, which threatened the lives of both professors and students and have led to the closure of the university. These latest incidents are an outcome of administrative problems at the university, including the intervention of students and members of security services into the administration, which have led to the spread of chaos and violence inside the university. The University Board of Trustees to implement its decisions related to the formation of the administrative board, and to investigate these latest incidents and take necessary measures against those found responsible for the damage incurred to the university and its staff and students. www.miftah.org /PrinterF.cfm?DocId=6789   (706 words)

Saudi Aramco World : Al-Azhar: A Millennial For most of the 600,000,000 people of the Muslim world al-Azhar is comparable, if one were to speak in British terms, to the Synod of Canterbury, Oxford University, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Piccadilly Circus, all rolled into one. In 575 the first students of Muslim canon law gathered round the columns in the mosque's sanctuary and al-Azhar became a university, now the world's oldest. For al-Azhar is a nodal center of a worldwide faith, with its own synod of shaikhs, an ancient and distinguished seat of learning, an institution studying and defining secular law, a focus of Egyptian national feeling and the center of a throbbing commercial area. www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197305/al-azhar-a.millennial.htm   (1671 words)

MuslimHeritage.com - Topics Al-Azhar is today the most important religious university in the Muslim world with as many as 90,000 students studying there at any one time. For over one thousand years Al-Azhar has produced thousands of eminent scholars, distinguished educationalists, preserving Islamic heritage and strengthening Islamic identity. It is the oldest and most celebrated of all Islamic academic institutions and Universities all over the world without exception. www.muslimheritage.com /topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=161   (960 words)

Al-Ahram Weekly Features Cyber Islam The fifth floor of the Al-Azhar University library is a flurry of activity. And in addition to the university complex in Cairo, over 5,000 Al-Azhar institutes exist nationwide providing primary, secondary and preparatory education to over one million students aged between five and 18. Mekki pointed out that the Web site will give Al-Azhar University the chance to correct the misconceptions that have been propagated in the West about Islam. weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/627/fe1.htm   (965 words)

Al-Azhar on Air Al-Azhar University is studying the possibility of launching a new religious satellite channel sometime in the near future. Al-Azhar University, he suggested, should make use of existing satellite channels such as Nile TV and Al-Tanweer instead of launching into the business themselves. El-Alem's fears are centred on the fact that even though "Al-Azhar University has the most celebrated scholars, it lacks the technical means and human resources to launch a religious channel." The media expert said more research had to be done regarding "which Western channels attack Islam and the proper ways to refute their allegations." yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=2399   (913 words)

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Al The press report stated that while he was chairman the committee had decided it was time to transform al-Azhar University into a modern university that would include schools of agriculture, medicine, business, and engineering. Examples include the creation of Islamic banks, whose express purpose, in keeping with Islamic law, is to obviate the need for fixed interest rates; resistance to the secularization of al-Azhar University, mentioned above; and the creation of the state of Pakistan. As such, the complete heritage of Islamic culture, whether in the field of Islamic religion per se, or philosophy, or art, came under the one rubric of Western scholarship: "Islamic studies" (originally called "oriental studies"). www.al-huda.com /Article_4of25.htm   (3549 words)

Al-Ahram Weekly Home News Students riot over novel Police fired tear gas canisters to disperse some 5,000 students demonstrating outside the campus of Al-Azhar University in suburban Nasr City against a Syrian-authored book viewed by fundamentalists as insulting to Islam. In a meeting with students, Al-Azhar University President Ahmed Omar Hashem said the government does not allow insults to religion. Students quoted by the French news agency AFP said the demonstrations began in the women's section of the university after authorities took down photocopies of Al-Shaab newspaper's article denouncing the novel. weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/481/eg7.htm   (661 words)

Egypt's Al-Azhar University Orders Banning Of Two Books Al-Azhar University, considered by many to be the world's leading Sunni Islam seat of learning, ordered the ban against the "Studies of Muslim Apocalyptic," by U.S. writer David Cook, 37, and "Responsibility for the Failure of the Islamic State," by Egyptian author Gamal al-Banna. The pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper reported Wednesday that Al- Azhar had ordered the confiscation of a second book written by Al- Banna, brother of the founder of Egypt's largest Islamic group, the Muslim Brotherhood. A senior member of Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Cook's work was among a list of books reviewed and deemed as damaging to Islam's image by a committee of 35 clerics. www.hvk.org /articles/0804/94.html   (463 words)

et - Full Story Al-Azhar is the only university that teaches the diversity of the Islamic heritage. Building branches of Al-Azhar University in other parts of the world is a mammoth challenge. SOME CLAIM AL-AZHAR is a bastion of conservatism, out of step with the times and unable to nurture the tolerant face of Islam that is the antidote to both Islamist extremism and Islamophobia. www.egypttoday.com /article.aspx?ArticleID=2292   (1230 words)

CURRICULUM VITAE Journal, College of Education, Al- Azhar Univ, 1996, 54: 1-10 and. Journal; College of Education, UAE University, (1992), Vol. Paper presented at the Second Scientific Conference, College of Education, University of Bahrain, from 7-9 May 1991. www.dr-ghareeb.com /ecv.htm   (2006 words)

Mark Gabriel - A fromer Muslim from Al-Azhar University You have to agree to Islam.” The university heard about it, and I was called in for a meeting in December 1991. I was teaching at the university, and I was an imam on the weekend at this mosque. Immediately he gave me a plastic bottle of water and some falafel and pita that were brought to him by his visitors, but he told me that the police had warned him not to give me anything. www.arabicbible.com /testimonies/gabriel.htm   (5013 words)

Home University of Al-Azhar, Faculty of Science, Zoology Dept., Nasr city, 11884 Cairo, Egypt. Abd-El-Sattar Mohamed Metwally, Head of Agricultural Zoology and Nematoda Department, Faculty of Agrriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt Phone/Fax (202) 4024132 / 4024190. in Entomology, Faculty of Science Al-Azhar University, 1989 www.drbream.s5.com   (1628 words)

Interview 2 - Al Azhar University in Cairo FASOTE: We're here with Dr. Salah Nefeily, professor of English Literature at Al Azhar University in Cairo. Interview 2 - Al Azhar University in Cairo Al Azhar is one of the oldest and most respected institutions for Islamic thought in the world, dating back over 1000 years. www.fasote.org /i/interviews/2.html   (1803 words)

Steve Stalinsky on Al Azhar on Nation al Review Online The issue of extremism at Al Azhar is related to both the war on terrorism, as well as the broader issue of reform in the Middle East and, in particular, Egypt. Sheikh of Al Azhar, one of the most coveted positions of authority in Sunni Islam, from 1929-1935 was Muhammad al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri, grandfather of al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri. The issue of extremism at Al Azhar has emerged as one aspect of the war on terrorism which has not received much attention. www.nationalreview.com /comment/stalinsky200404120847.asp   (847 words)

Ahmed M This center was established for teaching Al-Azhar University curriculum for Indonesian students. Class size varied from 30 to 50 Indonesian students of Al-Azhar University who needed special teaching due to language barriers. Elected to represent Al-Azhar University in the Arab International Camp for Outstanding Students, Summer 1996 www.irvingmasjid.org /resume.htm   (472 words)

Catholic World News : Pope Visits Famed Islamic University Sheikh Tantawi met the Pope in a red marble parlor in the Al-Azhar University, which is the most famous institution of learning in the world of Islam. VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- Pope John Paul II (bio - news) met with Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the head of the renowned Al-Azhar University, during his first evening in Egypt on February 24. Catholic World News : Pope Visits Famed Islamic University www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=12338   (213 words)

Foreword by Dr Salah Eddine Namiq He has been teaching this course at Al-Azhar University since 1968. I have personally given much importance to the subject from the time I began teaching it at this University in 1964 for two major reasons first. I then asked Dr. Al-Fanjari who was then Counselor to the State Council to help by teaching this course on Islamic economics. www.witness-pioneer.org /vil/Books/MF_EEP/forword2.htm   (372 words)

Al Azhar University - Gaza - Details ‏‏Al -Azhar University of Gaza (AUG) was founded in 1991 in order to meet the demand for higher education. Today it is one of the largest Palestinian Universities. It has an academic staff of over 322 members and 234 administrative member of staff and a student population of around 12,391 distributed between eight faculties: Pharmacy, Applied Medical Science, Science, Agriculture, Education, Arts, Economics & Administrative Sciences and Law. www.arabland.com /dir/review.php?sid=85&recat=   (120 words)

Arabic OBGYN Network MD in Obstetrics and Gynecology, April 1993 Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University 2. Private Exhibitions: •1 -Faculty of Medicine, Al Azhar University, Cairo 1982. MD Obstetrics & Gynecology - Al Azhar University, Egypt. www.arabicobgyn.net /moderatorsd.asp?cd=6   (2150 words)

Jihad Watch: Egyptian Intellectual: Al-Azhar University Curricula Encourages Extremism and Terrorism Progressive writer and Cairo University lecturer on the sociology of religion Sayyed Al-Qimni wrote, in an article in the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Youssef, that the curricula of Al-Azhar University encourage extremism and terror. Here's another stop-the-presses story, as I have chronicled Al-Azhar's radicalism for years, but it is good to see it being acknowledged in the Islamic world -- especially the parts about the oppression of dhimmis, which are almost never admitted by Muslim spokesmen. They must be forbidden to raise their voice in mourning the dead.' If a dhimmi(3) invites a Muslim to a wedding celebration, he must not go, 'because one must degrade dhimmis...'" www.jihadwatch.org /archives/2004/09/003355print.html   (815 words)

Editorial Advisor - Asem A.A. Moussa, MD - Egypt Member of continuing medical education unit at Al-Azhar University Supervision and teaching doctors and nurses al aspects of antenatal, intranatal and postpartum management. Al Rass General Hospital, M.O.H, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia www.obgyn.net /all_advisors/A_Moussa.htm   (136 words)

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