Al-Azhar

It is well known that most of the Sunni Islamic world is managed by edicts promoted by the highest authority in the Muslim world that is Al-Azhar, which is based in Cairo.

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In Friday's recording al-Zawahri called Al-Azhar's scholars the "lions of the nation."

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He became a judge at the age of twenty seven, which entitled him to issue a large enough number of fatwas for generations to sink under after him, both in Saudi Arabia and those countries which follow Wahhabi Islam in return for more than a handful of dollars, such as Al-Azhar, which Muhammad Abduh, and later Gamal Abdul Nasser, tried to reform.

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He also called for closer cooperation with Islamic bodies such as Al-Azhar in

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Sulaiman, a 22-year-old former student of Islamic jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, is better known by his pen name, Karim Amer.

Weblogs 2009

His father was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University's medical school and his grandfather was the grand imam of Al-Azhar University, a premier center of religious study.

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Associated Press Christians surrounded a vehicle carrying, Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar, an institute of Sunni Islam, after he offered his condolences to Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic church, in Cairo.

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Fluent in Arabic, he also translated Persian poetry while attending Al-Azhar University in Egypt, before returning to Kabul to join the Faculty of Islamic Law.

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Will it be from the parliament or from Al-Azhar or from the Presidential palace or even Abdeen Palace which only is opened from VIPs guests when Mubarak wants to impress them.

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Following a complaint filed by the university, Sulaiman appeared before a public prosecutor on November 7 to answer charges related to items he wrote on his blog criticizing Islam, the authorities at Al-Azhar and President Hosni Mubarak.

Weblogs 2009