Al-Azhar University is a public university in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 970, and associated with the Al-Azhar Al-Sharif religious institution in Islamic Cairo, it is Egypt's oldest degree-granting univ
The courtyard of the Al-Azhar Mosque, which largely dates to the Fatimid period
Prayer hall of Al-Azhar Mosque
The Gate of the Barbers, one of the entrances to the mosque embellished during the Ottoman period
An Azhari institute in Tanta
The Society of the Muslim Brothers, better known as the Muslim Brotherhood, is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar, imam and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna i
The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna
A gathering of senior youth scouts (jawala, lit. "travellers") in the 1940s.
Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb, who was executed in 1966
Then-U.S. secretary of state John Kerry meeting with then-Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, May 2013