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Al-Azhar University is the largest university in the world. It originated before the University of Paulina in Italy. It is the third oldest university after the universities of Al-Zaytoonah and Al-Qarawiyyin. However, it has remained an educational institution throughout the centuries, while the first two universities have long ceased to be educational institutions. It is the largest global Islamic scientific religious institution, located in Cairo is the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt, in addition to its branches in most of the Egyptian governorates.

Al-Azhar University represents the scientific destination of Muslims. For more than a thousand years, it has been the beacon of knowledge, and the destination for students of science from everywhere to learn Islamic, Arabic, natural and human sciences. Throughout its long history, it has remained a center of moderation and dissemination of Islamic culture and the teachings of Islam and its tolerant values ​​that do not know exaggeration or extremism. Exaggeration, nor extremism, nor sectarian and political fanaticism... In its halls, kings, sultans, presidents, Al-Azhar sheikhs, muftis, ministers, ambassadors, scholars and other parts of the world learned.

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Egypt (Al-Azhar University) Prof. Dr. Mohamed Al-Mahrasawy commends Indonesian students at Al-Azhar University Faculties


May 22, 2023June 6, 2023

Al-Azhar University President Prof. Mohamed Al-Mahrasawy commended the level of relationship between Indonesia and both…

Egypt (Al-Azhar University) 1,500 witness inauguration of the AAU North Africa Regional Office in Cairo, Egypt

Egypt (Al-Azhar University) 1,500 witness inauguration of the AAU North Africa Regional Office in Cairo, Egypt


November 9, 2022November 21, 2023

The Association of African Universities North Africa Regional Office (AAU NARO) was launched at a…

Egypt (Al-Azhar University) AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY SNATCHES 2020 ENACTUS WORLDCUP CHAMPIONSHIP

Egypt (Al-Azhar University) AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY SNATCHES 2020 ENACTUS WORLDCUP CHAMPIONSHIP


November 9, 2022June 6, 2023

In its very first time to participate in the Enactus worldcup entrepreneurship, Enactus Egypt, Al-Azhar…

Egypt (Al-Azhar University) Prof. Dr. Mohamed Al-Mahrasawy commends Indonesian students at Al-Azhar University Faculties

Egypt (Al-Azhar University) Prof. Dr. Mohamed Al-Mahrasawy commends Indonesian students at Al-Azhar University Faculties


November 9, 2022June 6, 2023

Al-Azhar University President Prof. Mohamed Al-Mahrasawy commended the level of relationship between Indonesia and both…

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