Word: al-azhar
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Wearing scarlet caps and traditional flowing robes, some 400 imams one day last week left al-Azhar, Islam's oldest university, and fanned out through the streets of Cairo to spread a new-style gospel. The preachers had just completed a two-week course designed to align their ancient faith with the facts of modern life...
...august council of ulema (professors) of Cairo's Al-Azhar, the oldest existing Moslem university, issued a solemn declaration against coeds. Coeducation, said the council, is nothing short of promiscuity, "unsuitable to the Islamic way of life." Furthermore, added the scholars, "this situation has turned certain male students from true scientific activity...
...Slums. Communists, anti-foreigner fanatics of the Moslem Brotherhood, and left-wing rebels worked together, directing the mobs that swept out from Cairo's unspeakable slums behind the great Moslem divinity school of Al-Azhar. At that point, the irresponsible Wafd government, unable to control the mobs it so often had incited, fell...
...Council of Ulema (sages) of Cairo's Al-Azhar University, which forms the spiritual leadership of present-day Islam, formally proclaimed the Jihad (holy war). "Know that Jihad has now become the duty for everyone which he should fulfill either through his own person or through his money," said the Ulema. "Anybody failing to fulfill such duty will be punished by Allah. Allah promised to give Paradise to Moslems who [participate]. . . . Let the echo of your voice carry from East to West the lovely word which is dear to the faithful-Jihad, Jihad, Jihad-and Allah be with...
...Tercentenary Celebration in their robes of black, scarlet, gold. Up to President James Bryant Conant and Harvard's Fellows, waiting on the dusty stage, they filed like graduates in some fabulous commencement. First, according to seniority, came swarthy Professor Saleh Hashem Attia from that most ancient university, Al-Azhar, founded at Cairo in 970 A. D. Lanky, bespectacled President Conant, trying to keep the golden tassel of his mortarboard from slipping forward as he bowed, pumped Professor Attia's hand, drawled: "How do you do?" Next came delegates from Bologna, Paris, Oxford. Then up to the stage marched...