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The ethnic appellation
Al-Azhari, in general, is an ethnic appellation that denotes a person who has studied at the al-Azhar University at Cairo. It is a nisba, like the other names of scholars that record a place of study or residence, and it is applied to many different scholars of the Islamic world. 1
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- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 870
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Azhari (nisba)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/azhari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.