Catering to around 16,000 students, Al-Azhar University provides courses in agriculture, medical scientists and dentistry while the Al-Quds Open University operates six centres across Palestine.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/what-is-the-gaza-strip-and-who-controls-it-b2428319.html

Egypt’s Al-Azhar Fatwa Global Center issued a religious ruling against the monetization of Umrah by proxy, referring to “religious brokers” as defying religious ritual purposes.

Source: https://www.siasat.com/egyptian-preacher-arrested-for-promoting-proxy-umrah-app-2690918/

He described the 2019 declaration on ‘Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’ – co-authored by His Holiness Pope Francis and His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El Tayeb – as “a model for compassion and human solidarity.”

Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/03/11/un-observes-ist-international-day-against-islamophobia/

In a separate interview with newsmen, an uncle to the deceased student, of Kofar Kuyanbana area, Zaria, said his nephew died on October 20 at Al-Azhar Academy, a private secondary school in Zaria.

Source: https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/police-arrest-2-suspects-for-allegedly-flogging-student-to-death-in-zaria/p5h6djd

The Al-Azhar al-Sharif mosque houses the Sunni world’s foremost seat of religious learning.

Source: https://wtop.com/national/2023/10/live-updates-the-hamas-attack-on-israel/