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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 […]

On Sunday 7 October 2018, Al-Azhar Alumni UK, which is the UK Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates, began its series of intellectual seminars to be held across the country. The initial seminar was held at the Al-Karam Mosque in Forest Gate, London, hosted by Allama Ijaz Ahmed Nerwi and Imam Mansoor Mahmood. […]

UK Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates supports the response and condemnation by Al-Azhar Al-Sharif of the recent wave of videos by these enemies of humanity Despite much murder and mayhem, chaos in social order and ideological viewpoints, extremists and terrorists have not tired and continue to plague our world with their evil […]

Al-Azhar Alumni UK is the UK Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates situated at Eaton Hall, in Retford, Nottinghamshire. In order to further the mission and vision of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the UK Branch has started the process of a series of intellectual seminars under the auspice of the Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb […]

The 2018 Qur’an Summer Camp was held at Eaton Hall in Retford, Nottinghamshire, jointly organised by Jamia Al-Karam, Al-Azhar Alumni UK and Darul Qurra Birmingham. The camp was held from 6 August to 17 August, and it comprised of twelve days of intensive lessons, learning and practice sessions, supplementary classes as well as spiritual, intellectual […]

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 […]

On Wednesday evening, 18th July 2018, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, hosted a reception at Lambeth Palace with the Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, to celebrate the first successful programme of ‘The Emerging Peacemakers’ Forum’. The Emerging Peacemakers’ Forum is jointly organised by Lambeth Palace, The Muslim Council of Elders, Al-Azhar Al-Sharif […]

This week is the Srebrenica Memorial Week marking the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in which the European Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered “unimaginable savagery” at the hands of General Ratko Mladic’s forces. More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred in the greatest atrocity on European soil since the Second World […]

On Saturday 28 April 2018, Jamia Al-Karam hosted its annual alumni and graduates get-together event at its campus of Eaton Hall in Retford. Graduates since 1988 and Imams, young scholars and graduates of Al-Azhar University and members of the UK Branch of the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates (WOAG UK) from across the country and overseas […]

Islam instills the true feeling of pride of Allah the Almighty and His Prophet (PBUH) in the Muslim’s character so as to resist any temptations and withstand any pressure. The Muslim should mull over Allah’s ways of universe while being upbeat for victory when calamity strikes: bearing in mind that the darkest hour is that […]