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At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
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In time
Overview
al-Suyuti reports that in Rabi' al-Akhir 359 AH the people of Egypt were permitted to call "come to the best of works" (hayya 'ala khayr al-'amal) and began building the Al-Azhar Mosque, which was completed in Ramadan 361 AH. 1
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 621
- Al-Azhar in a Thousand Years — Ahmad Muhammad Awf
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islam.museum contributors. “Construction of al-Azhar Mosque”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/azhar-founding-361/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.