{
 "id": "building/al-azhar",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "al-azhar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الجامع الأزهر",
  "en": "Al-Azhar Mosque"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الجامع الأزهر بالقاهرة، أرساه الفاطميون جامعاً لدعوتهم ثم حوّله الوزير يعقوب بن كلس في سنة 378هـ إلى جامعة تدرس فيها العلوم والآداب بعد أن كان مقصوراً على إقامة الدعوة الفاطمية، فصار من أهم مراكز الثقافة في مصر مع مسجدي عمرو وابن طولون والحاكم.",
  "en": "Al-Azhar at Cairo: founded by the Fatimids as the mosque of their da'wa, then turned by the vizier Ya'qub ibn Killis in 378 into a university teaching the sciences and letters — from a pulpit reserved for the Fatimid call into one of Egypt's foremost centres of learning beside the mosques of Amr, Ibn Tulun and al-Hakim."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people",
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era",
  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "حسن إبراهيم حسن، تاريخ الإسلام ج4 — مراكز الثقافة، ص403",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "model": "swe-2-high",
   "run": "lib-hasanibrahim-14"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الجامع الأزهر في [[place/cairo|القاهرة]]، أرساه [[polity/fatimid-caliphate|الفاطميون]] جامعاً لدعوتهم. ثم حوّله الوزير [[person/yaqub-ibn-killis|يعقوب بن كلس]] سنة 378هـ إلى جامعة تدرّس فيها العلوم والآداب. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.403}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "من الدعوة إلى العلم",
     "markdown": "كان الجامع مقصوراً على إقامة الدعوة الفاطمية. ثم صار من أهم مراكز الثقافة في مصر، إلى جانب مسجدي عمرو وابن طولون والحاكم. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.403}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما لم يُذكر هنا",
     "markdown": "يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي: سنة التأسيس، وثاني مصدر لسنة 378هـ."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-azhar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Azhar Mosque in [[place/cairo|Cairo]] was founded by the [[polity/fatimid-caliphate|Fatimids]] as a mosque for their mission. In 378 AH the vizier [[person/yaqub-ibn-killis|Yaqub ibn Killis]] turned it into a university where the sciences and literature were taught. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.403}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "From mission to learning",
     "markdown": "The mosque was at first limited to hosting the Fatimid mission. It later became one of the most important centres of culture in Egypt, alongside the mosques of Amr, Ibn Tulun and al-Hakim. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.403}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What is not covered here",
     "markdown": "An additional source is needed for the year of founding, and for a second source for 378 AH."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-azhar",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/cairo",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "polity/fatimid-caliphate",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "أرساه الفاطميون لدعوتهم",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/yaqub-ibn-killis",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "حوله إلى جامعة 378هـ",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "building/dar-al-hikma-cairo",
  "building/khizanat-al-suruj",
  "concept/dai-al-duat",
  "event/waqat-al-sudan-cairo-564",
  "person/jaqmaq-al-zahiri",
  "person/qansuh-al-ghawri",
  "person/yusuf-ibn-al-khallal-al-muwaffaq",
  "place/al-azhar"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}