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Deputy to the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Shaykh Dr Abdul Fadeel al-Qawsi, welcomed on Sunday young British Imams and female teachers to Al-Azhar Al-Sharif for a four week specialist training course delving into the rich intellectual tradition of Islam at the hands of the senior expert scholars of Al-Azhar in various sciences, in order to […]

Al-Azhar Alumni UK, which is the UK Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates, hosted an evening of gratitude and reflection on Thursday 30 May 2019 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in order to mark the International Day of Al-Azhar, honouring 1079 years since the establishment of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif. The evening comprised of a formal […]

The International Day of Al-Azhar is being held on 7th Ramadan 1440 AH and marks 1079 years of continued scholarship and Islamic learning since the establishment and founding of the Al-Azhar Mosque and this historic seat of learning on the 7th of Ramadan in the year 361 AH (972 CE) in Cairo, Egypt. This makes […]

The New Zealand massacre and ISIS crimes are two branches of the same tree that is watered with hatred, violence and extremism. It is high time for people, in the East and the West, to stop repeating the lie of ‘Islamic terrorism’. This massacre is brewed by a savage and barbaric mind that cannot be […]

Following the tragic events in Christchurch, New Zealand, the British Muslim Forum, which is chaired by the President of Al-Azhar Alumni UK, Shaykh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada, issued the following statement. Also, read ‘The Peril of Insanity’ by the Vice-President of Al-Azhar Alumni UK written in March 2016, and remains ever more relevant. The BMF […]

Al-Azhar Alumni UK, which is the UK Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates, supports and stands by the university of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif in Egypt in strong condemnation of the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly its misguided and grossly ignorant recent statement. On Saturday 23 February 2019, a statement was issued by a website speaking on […]

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROPHETIC SUNNAH The Speech of His Eminence Prof. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in the Anniversary of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) Birth Ceremony 1440 AH – 2018 CE Rabi’ al-Awwal 11, 1440 AH | November 19, 2018 CE Al-Azhar Conference Center (ACC), Cairo, Egypt Translated by the Al-Azhar Observatory for […]

UK Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates joins with its headquarters at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif in strong condemnation of the treacherous attack in Giza Three Vietnamese tourists and a local Egyptian tour guide have been killed after a roadside bomb hit a bus near the Giza pyramids in Egypt. Eleven others were injured in […]