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The Organization for al-Azhar Graduates calls for serious efforts to counter anti-Muslim extremsim The Muslims of Great Britain have become deeply distressed and worried by the recent campaign of letters being sent around the country inciting violence and terrorism against Muslims in this country. The letters appear to call on people to attack Muslims on […]

Click here to view or download : Al-Azhar Observatory Report – Where is Daesh – March 2018 On Wednesday 21 March 2018, the UK Branch of the World Organization for al-Azhar Graduates held a series of important counter extremism seminars at the Al-Azhar Suite of the Eaton Hall campus in Retford. The seminars were attended […]

During his official trip to Pakistan, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shaykh Dr Shawqi ‘Allam, on Wednesday 21 March 2018, travelled to Bhera Sharif from Islamabad to visit the Dar-ul-Uloom Muhammadia Ghausia (University) of Bhera, which was founded by the late al-Azhari scholar, Zia-ul-Ummat Justice Pir Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (1918-1998), who was a student […]

Shaykh al-Azhar Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb heads high level delegation of Al-Azhar to Portugal Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, visited Portugal on an official overseas trip, where he praised the ‘pioneering experience’ of Portugal in terms of tolerance, which should be followed throughout Europe. The Grand Imam was speaking at the opening session of […]

Grand Imam of al-Azhar meets leaders of Worldwide Branches Of The Organization For al-Azhar Graduates. On Friday 19 January 2018, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, met with the leaders of branches of the World Organization for Al-Azhar Graduates, in Cairo, Egypt. The meeting with the Grand Imam was also attended […]

Al-Azhar is the world’s highest Islamic authority, and it is the intellectual and spiritual reference point for Sunni Muslims around the world. It has a history of more than a thousand years of scholarship and service to religion, knowledge and communities. It is respected by world institutions and appreciated by different faith communities, in particular […]

Imams and Muslim scholars of the United Kingdom have sent a letter of commendation for the work of Al-Azhar and the Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar. In an unprecedented first, British Imams as well as male and female Muslim scholars of the United Kingdom have come together and written a statement of commendation […]

Under the leadership of the Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates, based at Al-Azhar University in Egypt, strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Christian citizens of Egypt that occurred recently at the Mar Mina Church in the Helwan district on the southern outskirts of Cairo, which left several […]

On Wednesday 27 December 2017, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, led a high level delegation of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif and visited Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria (leader of the Coptic Church & Patriarch of St Mark’s Diocese) at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbassiya in Cairo. The Grand Imam extended greetings […]

The ‘Egyptian Family House’ which is a project of the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar received the Imam Al-Hasan Award in Abu Dhabi During the conference organised by the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, chaired by Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation), hosted […]