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al-Azhar Mosque

الجامع الأزهر

Cairo

Cairo's al-Azhar mosque, begun by the Ubaydids in Rabi' II 359 and finished in Ramadan 361 1. In his 2016 statement to the UN Security Council, Muhyi al-Din Afifi Ahmad gives about 40,000 students from about 130 countries (p. 100); the figure needs a second source.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Cairo

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Overview

al-Azhar Mosque: a mosque in Cairo. al-Suyuti reports that the Fatimids began building it in Rabi al-Akhir in the year 359 AH and finished it in Ramadan in the year 361 AH. 1

An additional source is needed: any report of its history after that.

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Cairo

People and things also explored

Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 621
  • Al-Azhar in a Thousand Years — Ahmad Muhammad Awf
  • The Grand Imam's Journey to Indonesia
  • Objective Views on Human Issues — Muhyi al-Din Afifi Ahmad
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Al-Azhar Mosque

Al-Azhar at Cairo: founded by the Fatimids as the mosque of their da'wa, then turned by the vizier Ya'qub ibn Killis in 378 into a university teaching the sciences and letters — from a pulpit reserved for the Fatimid call into one of Egypt's foremost centres of learning beside the mosques of Amr, Ibn Tulun and al-Hakim.