Al Azhar University

mukarrabin (37)in #partiko • 6 years ago

Al Azhar University: The oldest lighthouse of civilization

Islam is the father of modern civilization. Today, the world has started glorifying itself with the excellence of knowledge and science. The ancient Islamic universities of the world are bearing testimony to him.

Al-Azhar is one of the oldest universities in the Muslim world that still survive. This is not just the Muslim world; Rather, one of the oldest universities in the world.

The Green Campus of Al Azhar, spread across the horizon

Fatemi rulers of Shiite religion in the university capital Cairo in Egypt The University was established in 971 AD for intellectual conquest against Baghdad's Sunni ideological ruler.

Ancient Al Azhar

But al-Azhar did not start as a university. According to Shi'a Ismaili Imam and Fatimi Khalifa al-Muhayz Billah, Fatimi commander Jawahar Cairo built a mosque in 970. The next all Fatimid caliphs and the rulers of Egypt expanded this mosque.

Spectacular Jame Al Azhar 20 thousand devotees can pray together in this mosque.

Al-Azhar Mosque was converted into a university in 975. Shaikh Saeed al-Farid was appointed as the head of the university. At the beginning, there were 5 sections in Al Azhar. That is, Islamic theology, law, Arabic language and literature, Islamic astronomy, Islamic philosophy and logic.

In the Christian twelfth century, Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi, after conquering Egypt, al-Azhar was relieved of Shi'a effect. From today onwards, the followers of Al-Azhar Ahluz Sunnah Wal Jamaat

A teaching house

The journey of the modern Al Azhar started in 1961. Egypt's President Jamal Abdon Naser al-Azhar has broken the infrastructure and tradition of thousands of years, making him a secular university.

He added many modern departments and faculties. For example, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Economic, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Agriculture etc.

Egypt's only elected president, Muhammad Morsi and Shaykh al-Azhar

Jamal Abdun Nasser appointed Dean of the female teacher and faculty for the first time in Al Azhar.

Currently the faculties of Al Azhar University are divided into three units. That is, Islamic and Arabic, Science and Humanities. Each unit has more than one faculty and division. There are 87 faculties in Al Azhar. For its 40 girls and 47 boys.
English Language and Literature Division

Currently, there are 30 thousand teachers in Al Azhar's 15155 class room. There are 5 million students who read out from them. 20 percent of the students are foreigners. Currently, students from 102 countries are studying in Al Azhar.

Al-Azhar's staff, including teachers and the number of officers, is about 131,000 people.

However, under Al Azhar, there are about 4,000 educational institutions in Egypt. Al-Azhar's current student is about 20 million

Shaykhul Azhar in the traditional dress

To provide health care to Al Azhar students there are 7 own hospitals. The size of the last built hospital is 1 lakh 24 thousand square feet.

Al Azhar University, owner of Cairo's largest garden. A total of 30 thousand hectares of land is 1.5 kilometers long. At the age of five hundred years, there are 80 thousand species of plants in the garden. This is the idea of how big Al Azhar's volume is.