Post by AlAzhar University on Feb 23, 2013 8:13:45 GMT -5
Al-Azhar University has had a huge impact on the religious, cultural and political arena in Egypt, the Arab World, and the wider Muslim world.
Al-Azhar University is a university in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 970 or 972 as a mosque, or centre of Islamic learning, its students studied the Qur'an and Islamic law in detail, along with logic, grammar, rhetoric, and how to calculate the lunar phases of the moon.
The mosque and university are named in honor of Fatima Az-Zahraa, the daughter of Muhammad.
It was one of the first universities in the world and the only one to survive as a modern university including secular subjects in the curriculum. It is today the chief centre of Arabic literature and Islamic learning in the world.
Al-Azhar does not admit students who are not practicing Muslims but provides training in secular professions; it is a unique combination of a theological seminary and regular university, with faculties of medicine and engineering established in 1961.
Al-Azhar is considered by most Sunni Muslims to be the most prestigious school of Islamic law, and its scholars are seen as the highest scholars in the Muslim world. Its stated objectives remain the propagation of Islamic culture and the Arabic language.
Al-Azhar is run by a Supreme Council that establishes general policy, headed by a Grand Imam, styled the "Sheikh Al-Azhar."
The current Imam of Al-Azhar has declared that the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and suicide bombers are heretics who are not following the true path of Islam.
There were 12 president of Al Azhar University:
1. Muhammad Muhammad Amer el-Bahi
2. Ahmad Hasan el-Baquri
3. Badawi Abdel Latif Awad
4. Muhammad Hasan Fayed
5. Awad Allah Gad Higazi
6. Muhammad el-Tayyeb el-Naggar
7. Muhammad el-Sa'di Farhud
8. Abdel Fattah Husseini el-Sheikh
9. Ahmad Omar Hashem
10. Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad el-Tayyeb
11. Abdallah al-Husseini
12. Usama al-Abd
What to See
The Al-Azhar Mosque is a grand structure that reflects many centuries of styles. Entrance is through the 15th-century Barber's Gate, where students traditionally had their heads shaved.
This leads into a great courtyard (sahn), which dates from the 10th century and is overlooked by three stately minarets. The courtyard's white facade, accented by rosettes and keel-arched panels, is mostly from the Fatimid period.
The latticework-screened residential quarters of the madrassas on the right side date from the Mamluke period. These are rarely open to visitors, but tourists may enter the prayer hall, which is warmly carpeted and supported by alabaster pillars.
The university's library (not open to visitors), which was consolidated in 1897, is considered second in range and importance only to Dar Al-kotob Al-Masriah in Egypt, as far as the number of Islamic books and manuscripts are concerned. The library comprises of 99,062 books consist of 595,668 volumes of the most precious manuscripts and rare books, some as old as the 8th century.
Al-Azhar University is very awesome, because it was very old and it can survive until now. Al-Azhar also had many places to visit and see. I wish that I can go there too. (:
Sources
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_University
www.sacred-destinations.com/egypt/cairo-al-azhar-university
Al-Azhar University is a university in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 970 or 972 as a mosque, or centre of Islamic learning, its students studied the Qur'an and Islamic law in detail, along with logic, grammar, rhetoric, and how to calculate the lunar phases of the moon.
The mosque and university are named in honor of Fatima Az-Zahraa, the daughter of Muhammad.
It was one of the first universities in the world and the only one to survive as a modern university including secular subjects in the curriculum. It is today the chief centre of Arabic literature and Islamic learning in the world.
Al-Azhar does not admit students who are not practicing Muslims but provides training in secular professions; it is a unique combination of a theological seminary and regular university, with faculties of medicine and engineering established in 1961.
Al-Azhar is considered by most Sunni Muslims to be the most prestigious school of Islamic law, and its scholars are seen as the highest scholars in the Muslim world. Its stated objectives remain the propagation of Islamic culture and the Arabic language.
Al-Azhar is run by a Supreme Council that establishes general policy, headed by a Grand Imam, styled the "Sheikh Al-Azhar."
The current Imam of Al-Azhar has declared that the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and suicide bombers are heretics who are not following the true path of Islam.
There were 12 president of Al Azhar University:
1. Muhammad Muhammad Amer el-Bahi
2. Ahmad Hasan el-Baquri
3. Badawi Abdel Latif Awad
4. Muhammad Hasan Fayed
5. Awad Allah Gad Higazi
6. Muhammad el-Tayyeb el-Naggar
7. Muhammad el-Sa'di Farhud
8. Abdel Fattah Husseini el-Sheikh
9. Ahmad Omar Hashem
10. Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad el-Tayyeb
11. Abdallah al-Husseini
12. Usama al-Abd
What to See
The Al-Azhar Mosque is a grand structure that reflects many centuries of styles. Entrance is through the 15th-century Barber's Gate, where students traditionally had their heads shaved.
This leads into a great courtyard (sahn), which dates from the 10th century and is overlooked by three stately minarets. The courtyard's white facade, accented by rosettes and keel-arched panels, is mostly from the Fatimid period.
The latticework-screened residential quarters of the madrassas on the right side date from the Mamluke period. These are rarely open to visitors, but tourists may enter the prayer hall, which is warmly carpeted and supported by alabaster pillars.
The university's library (not open to visitors), which was consolidated in 1897, is considered second in range and importance only to Dar Al-kotob Al-Masriah in Egypt, as far as the number of Islamic books and manuscripts are concerned. The library comprises of 99,062 books consist of 595,668 volumes of the most precious manuscripts and rare books, some as old as the 8th century.
Al-Azhar University is very awesome, because it was very old and it can survive until now. Al-Azhar also had many places to visit and see. I wish that I can go there too. (:
Sources
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_University
www.sacred-destinations.com/egypt/cairo-al-azhar-university
