Category Archives: International Updates

The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, addressed the world regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) in a special video message. A summary of his points are as follows: Everyone has a responsibility to fight the coronavirus and to protect humanity from its dangers. We honour and appreciate the sacrifices made by health […]

Pausing Friday and Congregational Prayers in order to Protect People from the Coronavirus Read or download the statement: Statement in Arabic : 2020-03-15 Al-Azhar Supreme Council Statement ARB English: 2020-03-15 Al-Azhar Supreme Council Statement ENG All praise is for Almighty Allah alone, and peace and blessings be upon the One after whom there is no […]

On Monday 27th January 2020, the University of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif held a two-day high-level conference titled ‘the Al-Azhar International Conference on Renovation of Islamic Thought (Tajdid)’, which was attended by representatives of religious institutions and scholars from over 46 countries around the world. Prominent political and religious leaders as well as representatives of various Awqaf […]

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 […]

On the 4th of February 2019, the Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad Al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, and Pope Francis of the Vatican signed a historic declaration of fraternity. They called for peace between nations, religions and races, in front of a global audience of religious leaders from different faiths. On the special invite of H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin […]

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 […]

UK Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates vehemently refutes the deceptive assertions of the militant terror group, ‘Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’ On 3rd September 2014, Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of Al-Qaeda, announced the establishment of a new branch of his terror network in the Indian subcontinent in a video posted online, by merging various terrorist […]

From 27-29 July 2018, the International Muslim Scholars Conference was held in the city of Mataram, in Lombok, Indonesia. The conference was jointly organised by Al-Azhar Alumni Indonesia (the Indonesian Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates), the League of Middle-Eastern Graduates and the Governorate of West Nusa Tenggara region. The theme of the […]