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  • AFP/Getty Images Rajendra Kumar of India celebrates with his national flag after defeating Hussain Azhar of Pakistan in the 55 kg wrestling men's final at the Indira Gandhi sports Complex during the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi on October 6, 2010.

    How Medal Winners will Use their Prize Money Shefali Anand 2010

  • Al-Azhar is perhaps the world's oldest continuous university and has been since the time of Saladin a major center of Sunni religious authority.

    Tom Friedman and "Deaf" Americans JDsg 2005

  • Al-Azhar is perhaps the world's oldest continuous university and has been since the time of Saladin a major center of Sunni religious authority.

    Archive 2005-07-01 JDsg 2005

  • And tell him that, although El Azhar is in no way comparable to the great Occidental seats of learning, I was nevertheless astonished at what I saw there.

    The Girl from the Marsh Croft 1910

  • The Azhar is the grand collegiate Mosque of this city, — the Christ Church, in fact, of Cairo, — once celebrated throughout the world of Al-Islam.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Since he is a learned man, naturally he knows there is a mosque there, called El Azhar, which is the most celebrated institution of learning in the Orient.

    The Girl from the Marsh Croft 1910

  • "Lone, alias Azhar, was a wanted militant," a police spokesman said, adding that security forces were engaged in two other gunbattles Saturday against militants in south Kashmir.

    iac world news feed 2010

  • "Lone, alias Azhar, was a wanted militant," a police spokesman said, adding that security forces were engaged in two other gunbattles Saturday against militants in south Kashmir.

    Raw Story 2010

  • A spokesman for the attorney general on Friday called Azhar one of the masterminds in the murder of Zulkarnaen.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • A spokesman for the attorney general on Friday called Azhar one of the masterminds in the murder of Zulkarnaen.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

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