The area around Al Azhar mosque is home to crowded markets and ... into an attempted attack against a police patrol in western Cairo on Friday. When the officers caught the militant, "one of ...

But under the new constitution, that is exactly what the millennium-old mosque and university ... once it has spoken. At al-Azhar’s modern office complex in central Cairo, where business is ...

CAIRO — They came by the thousands, pouring through the ancient stone archways and into the gleaming white marble courtyard of al-Azhar mosque. The faithful had come to pray, to hear a ...

The video below shows a huge demonstration within the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, with worshippers chanting a famous slogan vowing to protect the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. “We sacrifice our ...

Cairo Nearly 500 students from Cairo's Al ... The university belongs to Al-Azhar mosque, the world's foremost seat of Sunni Muslim learning. Beside religious studies, the university awards degrees ...

Matt Bradley in Cairo reports: At Cairo's eminent Al Azhar mosque, the seat of Sunni Islamic learning and one of the oldest institutions of religious teaching in the world, regular noon prayers ...

CAIRO | When President Obama addresses the Muslim world from Cairo next month, Egyptian officials hope he will choose the 1,000-year-old Al-Azhar Mosque, the heart of a revered institution for ...

CAIRO — Amid Cairo’s cramped mass of humanity ... The expansive Mosque of Ahmed Ibn Tulun is not as famous as Al-Azhar Mosque or the Mohamed Ali mosque inside the Citadel fortress, but it ...