The imam of the Islamic university Al-Azhar in Cairo, the highest seat of Sunni learning, is expected to meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican March 22, AKI has reported. The leading Muslim ...

The Vatican and one of Islam's most renowned schools of Sunni thought are joining forces to discuss how they can work together in combating religious extremism that uses God's name to justify violence ...

Cairo: At least 540 students at Egypt’s religious Al Azhar University had suffered food poisoning, reported the health Ministry on Tuesday. The poisoning was blamed on unhealthy meals that students ...

In January 2024, as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continued, a pair of photographs went viral showing the apparent impact of the violence on Gaza’s universities. The above images accurately depict one ...

CAIRO, 21st May, 2025 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, met with His Eminence Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, and Chairman ...

Vol. 19, No. 1, Ethiopia and Nubia in Islamic Egypt: Connected Histories of Northeastern Africa (2019), pp. 61-84 (24 pages) At the end of the fifteenth century, Muslim students from the Horn of ...