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الجامع الأزهر

الجامع الأزهر

Cairo

Cairo's al-Azhar mosque, begun by the Ubaydids in Rabi' II 359 and finished in Ramadan 361 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Cairo

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Overview

al-Azhar Mosque: a mosque in Cairo. al-Suyuti reports that the Fatimids began building it in Rabi al-Akhir in the year 359 AH and finished it in Ramadan in the year 361 AH. 1

An additional source is needed: any report of its history after that.

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Cairo

People and things also explored

Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· The battle of the Sudan between the two palaces· Sultan al-Zahir Jaqmaq· Sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri· الموفق ابن الخلال· Al-Zahir Baybars· Saladin: The Conqueror of Jerusalem

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 621
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islam.museum contributors. “الجامع الأزهر”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-azhar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Al-Azhar Mosque

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.