Al-Azhar University
(pronounced "az-HAR", Arabic: الأزهر الشريف; Al-ʾAzhar al-Šarīf, "the Noble Azhar") in Egypt, founded in 975, is the chief centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world[1] and the world's second oldest surviving degree granting university.[2] It is associated with Al-Azhar mosque in Old Cairo. (City of Najaf in Iraq, its colleges and its body of the ulema serve in the world Shias in the same capacity as the Al-Azhar does to the Sunni world) The university's mission includes the propagation of Islamic religion and culture. To this end, its Islamic scholars (ulemas) render edicts (fatwas) on disputes submitted to them from all over the Sunni Islamic world regarding proper conduct for Muslim individuals or societies (a recent example being the clarification and thus prohibition of female genital cutting). Al-Azhar also trains Egyptian government appointed preachers in proselytization (da'wa).Its library is considered second in importance in Egypt only to the Egyptian National Library and Archives.[citation needed] In May 2005, Al-Azhar in partnership with a Dubai information technology enterprise, ITEP launched the H.H Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Project to Preserve Al Azhar Scripts and Publish Them Online (the "Al-Azhar Online Project") with the mission of eventually providing online access to the library's entire rare manuscripts collection (comprising about seven million pages).[3] [4]Contents[hide]1 History2 Magazine publishing3 Political views4 Al-Azhar and The Muslim Brothers4.1 On freedom of speech5 Notable persons associated with the university5.1 1800 - early 1900s5.2 1910-1950s5.3 1950-6 See also7 References8 External links
(pronounced "az-HAR", Arabic: الأزهر الشريف; Al-ʾAzhar al-Šarīf, "the Noble Azhar") in Egypt, founded in 975, is the chief centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world[1] and the world's second oldest surviving degree granting university.[2] It is associated with Al-Azhar mosque in Old Cairo. (City of Najaf in Iraq, its colleges and its body of the ulema serve in the world Shias in the same capacity as the Al-Azhar does to the Sunni world) The university's mission includes the propagation of Islamic religion and culture. To this end, its Islamic scholars (ulemas) render edicts (fatwas) on disputes submitted to them from all over the Sunni Islamic world regarding proper conduct for Muslim individuals or societies (a recent example being the clarification and thus prohibition of female genital cutting). Al-Azhar also trains Egyptian government appointed preachers in proselytization (da'wa).Its library is considered second in importance in Egypt only to the Egyptian National Library and Archives.[citation needed] In May 2005, Al-Azhar in partnership with a Dubai information technology enterprise, ITEP launched the H.H Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Project to Preserve Al Azhar Scripts and Publish Them Online (the "Al-Azhar Online Project") with the mission of eventually providing online access to the library's entire rare manuscripts collection (comprising about seven million pages).[3] [4]Contents[hide]1 History2 Magazine publishing3 Political views4 Al-Azhar and The Muslim Brothers4.1 On freedom of speech5 Notable persons associated with the university5.1 1800 - early 1900s5.2 1910-1950s5.3 1950-6 See also7 References8 External links
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