Word: azhar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most powerful religious force working for Nasser is Cairo's 1,000-year-old al-Azhar University, greatest center of higher learning in the Islamic world and seat of an "Islamic Missions City" that attracts students from every Moslem land. Recently, one Omar Salah walked all the way from Ghana to enroll at al-Azhar. It is some measure of Nasser's expectations that al-Azhar has already awarded scholarships to 2,000 Africans-as many Africans as are now studying in the whole...