Al-Azhar, the world's leading Islamic Sunni institution, strongly condemned on Wednesday the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas' Political Bureau, in Tehran earlier Wednesday describing it as a “heinous crime committed by a treacherous occupying entity”....
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Al-Azhar University condemned the US administration's abuse of the veto power for the third time in a row, in objection to stopping the brutal aggression on Gaza, coinciding with the approval of a new package of US aid to Israeli, in a scene that proves the involvement of the US administration as....
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Egypt’s Al-Azhar issued a statement on Monday hailing the Palestinian resistance and the innocent people of Gaza for their perseverance in the face of the Israeli brutal crimes in Gaza, while also praising those in the international community who condemned the...
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Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, condemned on Friday the Israeli occupation’s intensified attacks in Gaza, denouncing the bombardment, killing, and cutting of electricity and internet connections as blind terrorism and a clear violation of legal and...
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The Fatwa Centre of Al-Azhar, the world’s leading Sunni Islamic institution, issued a statement on Sunday that it is permissible for Muslims to give Zakat (charitable alms) to assist Palestinians suffering the effects of Israeli attacks. The Fatwa Centre also indicated that the givers, in this case, receive two rewards: …
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I am deeply saddened by the silence of the international community regarding the rights of the Palestinian people and the repeated attacks on Islamic and Christian holy sites,” said the grand imam of...
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In response to the desecration of the Holy Quran in Holland and Sweden, Egypt's Al-Azhar asked the citizens of the Arab world and Muslims to boycott the products of these two countries....
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The Grand Mufti of Egypt’s Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, is to visit senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, in Iraq early next month, according to sources...
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The transmission of knowledge has been a fundamental aspect of the Islamic tradition since the time of the Prophet Muhammad. In the centuries after the ...
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Al-Azhar explained the fiqh rule of supplicating with loud voice over graves in a fatwa recently issued by the committee of fatwa of al-Azhar assembly for Islamic researches and considered it recommended...
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