Word: azhar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Died. Sheik Mohamed Mamoun El Shinawi, 74, rector of Cairo's thousand-year-old El Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, fountainhead of Islamic orthodoxy; in Ismailia, Egypt...