Is al-Azhar under attack?
Published date: 15 October 2020 17:17 BST
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Last update: 3 years 4 months ago
Egypt's parliament rejected a bill that was set to strip the thousand-year-old al-Azhar University of its religious authority. It’s the latest chapter in a tense rivalry between Egypt’s president and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar.
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