Category Archives: UK News

A delegation from Al-Azhar Alumni UK travelled to Cairo, Egypt, to attend various meetings and ceremonies at Al-Azhar University from 22nd July to 24th July 2019. The visit was jointly organised by Al-Azhar Alumni UK and the World Organisation for Al-Azhar Graduates based in Cairo. The delegation was headed by the Vice-President of Al-Azhar Alumni […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]