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class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2.2 Madrasa and mausoleum of Aqbugha </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Madrasa_and_mausoleum_of_Aqbugha-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Madrasa_Gawhariyya" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Madrasa_Gawhariyya"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2.3 Madrasa Gawhariyya </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Madrasa_Gawhariyya-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Minaret_of_Qaytbay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Minaret_of_Qaytbay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2.4 Minaret of Qaytbay </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Minaret_of_Qaytbay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gate_of_Qaytbay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gate_of_Qaytbay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2.5 Gate of Qaytbay </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gate_of_Qaytbay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Minaret_of_al-Ghuri" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Minaret_of_al-Ghuri"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2.6 Minaret of al-Ghuri </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Minaret_of_al-Ghuri-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ottoman_renovations_and_additions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ottoman_renovations_and_additions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3 Ottoman renovations and additions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ottoman_renovations_and_additions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Bab_al-Muzayinīn" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bab_al-Muzayinīn"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3.1 Bab al-Muzayinīn </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bab_al-Muzayinīn-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Current_layout_and_structure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Footnotes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Footnotes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Footnotes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Sources </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" 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d'al-Azhar – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Mezquita d'al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8Fl-%C6%8Fzh%C9%99r_m%C9%99scidi" title="Əl-Əzhər məscidi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Əl-Əzhər məscidi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6" title="আল-আজহার মসজিদ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আল-আজহার মসজিদ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8F%D1%87%D1%8D%D1%86%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%90%D0%B7%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Мячэць аль-Азхар – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Мячэць аль-Азхар" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEamija_Al-Azhar" title="Džamija Al-Azhar – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Džamija Al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquita_d%27al-Azhar" title="Mesquita d'al-Azhar – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mesquita d'al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_(me%C5%A1ita)" title="Al-Azhar (mešita) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Al-Azhar (mešita)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar-Moschee" title="Al-Azhar-Moschee – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Al-Azhar-Moschee" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezquita_de_al-Azhar" title="Mezquita de al-Azhar – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mezquita de al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar-moskeo" title="Al-Azhar-moskeo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Al-Azhar-moskeo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_meskita" title="Al-Azhar meskita – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Al-Azhar meskita" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1" title="مسجد الازهر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مسجد الازهر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosqu%C3%A9e_Al-Azhar" title="Mosquée Al-Azhar – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mosquée Al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%8C%EC%95%84%EC%A6%88%ED%95%98%EB%A5%B4_%EB%AA%A8%EC%8A%A4%ED%81%AC" title="알아즈하르 모스크 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="알아즈하르 모스크" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC-%D4%B1%D5%A6%D5%B0%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%B4%D5%A6%D5%AF%D5%AB%D5%A9_(%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%A5)" title="Ալ-Ազհարի մզկիթ (Կահիրե) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ալ-Ազհարի մզկիթ (Կահիրե)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Al-Azhar" title="Masjid Al-Azhar – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Masjid Al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moschea_di_al-Azhar" title="Moschea di al-Azhar – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Moschea di al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%92%D7%93_%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%96%D7%94%D7%A8" title="מסגד אל-אזהר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מסגד אל-אזהר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%98%D0%BB-%D0%90%D0%B7%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%88%D1%96%D1%82%D1%96" title="Әл-Азхар мешіті – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Әл-Азхар мешіті" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umusigiti_wa_Al-Azhar" title="Umusigiti wa Al-Azhar – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" data-title="Umusigiti wa Al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Ikinyarwanda" data-language-local-name="Kinyarwanda" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ikinyarwanda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1" title="الجامع الازهر – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الجامع الازهر" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_al-Azhar" title="Masjid al-Azhar – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Masjid al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar-moskee" title="Al-Azhar-moskee – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Al-Azhar-moskee" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar-moskeen" title="Al-Azhar-moskeen – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Al-Azhar-moskeen" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meczet_Al-Azhar" title="Meczet Al-Azhar – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Meczet Al-Azhar" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquita_de_Alazar" title="Mesquita de Alazar – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mesquita de Alazar" data-language-autonym="Português" 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Four minarets and three domes visible" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Al_Azhar_Mosque_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Al_Azhar_Mosque_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Al_Azhar_Mosque_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Al_Azhar_Mosque_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Al_Azhar_Mosque_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Al_Azhar_Mosque_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2586" data-file-height="3616" /></a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #9BE89B">Religion</th></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions" title="List of religions and spiritual traditions">Affiliation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches" title="Islamic schools and branches">Branch/tradition</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a><a href="#cite_note-1">[a]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Leadership</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_al-Tayyeb" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmad al-Tayyeb">Ahmad al-Tayyeb</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #9BE89B">Location</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Geographic coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Al-Azhar_Mosque&params=30.045709_N_31.262683_E_type:landmark">30°02′45″N 31°15′46″E / 30.045709°N 31.262683°E / 30.045709; 31.262683</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #9BE89B">Architecture</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">Mosque</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Architectural_style" title="Architectural style">Style</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Islamic_architecture" title="Islamic architecture">Islamic architecture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_architecture" title="Fatimid architecture">Fatimid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_architecture" title="Mamluk architecture">Mamluk</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date established</th><td class="infobox-data">972</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #9BE89B">Specifications</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capacity</th><td class="infobox-data">20,000</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Minaret" title="Minaret">Minaret</a>(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">5</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Site area</th><td class="infobox-data">15,600 m2 (168,000 sq ft)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195243-2">[1]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Al-Azhar Mosque (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: الجامع الأزهر, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, <a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> 'The Resplendent Congregational Mosque', <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Arabic language">Egyptian Arabic</a>: جامع الأزهر, romanized: Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo, Egypt</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Cairo" title="Islamic Cairo">historic Islamic core of the city</a>. Commissioned as the new capital of the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid Caliphate</a> in 970, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand <a href="/wiki/Minarets" class="mw-redirect" title="Minarets">Minarets</a>".<a href="#cite_note-3">[b]</a> Its name is usually thought to derive from az-Zahrāʾ (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> 'the shining one'), a title given to <a href="/wiki/Fatimah" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatimah">Fatimah</a>, the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>. After its dedication in 972, and with the hiring by mosque authorities of 35 <a href="/wiki/Ulama" title="Ulama">scholars</a> in 989, the mosque slowly developed into what it is today. The affiliated <a href="/wiki/Al-Azhar_University" title="Al-Azhar University">Al-Azhar University</a> is the second oldest continuously run one in the world after <a href="/wiki/University_of_al-Qarawiyyin" title="University of al-Qarawiyyin">Al-Qarawiyyin</a> in <a href="/wiki/Idrisid_dynasty" title="Idrisid dynasty">Idrisid</a> <a href="/wiki/Fez,_Morocco" title="Fez, Morocco">Fes</a>. It has long been regarded as the foremost institution in the Islamic world for the study of Sunni <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">sharia</a>, or Islamic law. In 1961, the university, integrated within the mosque as part of a <a href="/wiki/Madrasah" class="mw-redirect" title="Madrasah">mosque school</a> since its inception, was nationalized and officially designated an independent university, <a href="/wiki/Al-Azhar_Al-Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Azhar Al-Sharif">Al-Azhar Al-Sharif</a>, following the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1952" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Revolution of 1952">Egyptian Revolution of 1952</a>. Over the course of its over a millennium-long history, the mosque has been alternately neglected and highly regarded. Because it was founded as a <a href="/wiki/Ismailism" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismailism">Shiite Ismaili</a> institution, <a href="/wiki/Saladin" title="Saladin">Saladin</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> Ayyubid dynasty that he founded shunned al-Azhar, removing its status as a congregational mosque and denying <a href="/wiki/Stipend" title="Stipend">stipends</a> to students and teachers at its school. These moves were reversed under the <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate_(Cairo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)">Mamluk Sultanate</a>, under whose rule numerous expansions and renovations took place. Later rulers of Egypt showed differing degrees of deference to the mosque and provided widely varying levels of financial assistance, both to the school and to the upkeep of the mosque. Today, al-Azhar remains a deeply influential institution in Egyptian society that is <a href="/wiki/Taqlid" title="Taqlid">highly revered</a> in the Sunni <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim world</a> and a symbol of Islamic Egypt. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name">edit</a>]</div> The city of Cairo was established by the Fatimid general <a href="/wiki/Jawhar_al-Siqilli" class="mw-redirect" title="Jawhar al-Siqilli">Jawhar al-Siqilli</a>, on behalf of the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid caliph</a> <a href="/wiki/Al-Mu%27izz_li-Din_Allah" title="Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah">al-Mu'izz</a>, following the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_conquest_of_Egypt" title="Fatimid conquest of Egypt">Fatimid conquest of Egypt</a> in 969. It was originally named al-Manṣūriyya (المنصورية) after the prior seat of the Fatimid caliphate, <a href="/wiki/Mansouria,_Tunisia" title="Mansouria, Tunisia">al-Mansuriyya</a> in modern <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a>. The mosque, first used in 972, may have initially been named Jāmiʿ al-Manṣūriyya (جامع المنصورية, "the mosque of Mansuriyya"), as was common practice at the time. It was al-Mu'izz who renamed the city al-Qāhira (القاهرة, "the Victorious"). The name of the mosque thus became Jāmiʿ al-Qāhira (جامع القاهرة, "the mosque of Cairo"), the first transcribed in Arabic sources.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199653-4">[2]</a> The mosque acquired its current name, al-ʾAzhar, sometime between the <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">caliphate</a> of al-Mu'izz and the end of the reign of the second Fatimid caliph in Egypt, <a href="/wiki/Al-Aziz_Billah" title="Al-Aziz Billah">al-Aziz Billah</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 975–996).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199653-4">[2]</a> ʾAzhar is the masculine form for zahrāʾ, meaning "splendid" or "most resplendent". Zahrāʾ is an <a href="/wiki/Epithet" title="Epithet">epithet</a> applied to Muhammad's daughter <a href="/wiki/Fatimah" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatimah">Fatimah</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom2007104-5">[3]</a> wife of caliph <a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">Ali</a>. She was claimed as the ancestress of al-Mu'izz and the <a href="/wiki/Imamate_in_Ismaili_doctrine" title="Imamate in Ismaili doctrine">imams</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_dynasty" title="Fatimid dynasty">Fatimid dynasty</a>; one theory is that her epithet is the source for the name al-ʾAzhar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlair2000507-6">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHitti1973114-7">[5]</a> The theory, however, is not confirmed in any Arabic source and its plausibility has been both supported and denied by later Western sources.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195236-8">[6]</a> An alternative theory is that the mosque's name is derived from the names given by the Fatimid caliphs to their <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Great_Palaces" title="Fatimid Great Palaces">palaces</a>. Those near the mosque were collectively named al-Quṣūr al-Zāhira (القصور الزاهرة, "the Brilliant Palaces") by al-Aziz Billah, and the royal gardens were named after another derivative of the word zahra. The palaces had been completed and named prior to the mosque changing its name from Jāmiʿ al-Qāhira to al-ʾAzhar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199653-4">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge19615-9">[7]</a> The word Jāmiʿ is derived from the Arabic root word jamaʿa (g-m-ʿ), meaning "to gather". The word is used for large congregational mosques. While in <a href="/wiki/Classical_Arabic" title="Classical Arabic">classical Arabic</a> the name for al-Azhar remains Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, the pronunciation of the word Jāmiʿ changes to Gāmaʿ in <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic" title="Egyptian Arabic">Egyptian Arabic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[c]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al-Azhar_(inside)_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A paved courtyard is visible in the foreground, and behind it a wall of angular keel-shaped arched bays supported by columns. Behind the wall, two minarets, a dome, and another minaret are visible from left to right. In the far background in the center the top of another minaret can be seen." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Al-Azhar_%28inside%29_2006.jpg/220px-Al-Azhar_%28inside%29_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Al-Azhar_%28inside%29_2006.jpg/330px-Al-Azhar_%28inside%29_2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Al-Azhar_%28inside%29_2006.jpg/440px-Al-Azhar_%28inside%29_2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>The courtyard of the mosque, dating to the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid</a> period. Above, the minarets date from the <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate_(Cairo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)">Mamluk</a> period. From left to right: the double-finial minaret of <a href="/wiki/Al-Ashraf_Qansuh_al-Ghuri" title="Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri">Qansuh al-Ghuri</a>, the minaret of <a href="/wiki/Qaitbay" title="Qaitbay">Qaytbay</a>, and the minaret of Aqbugha (behind the dome).</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fatimid_Caliphate">Fatimid Caliphate</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fatimid Caliphate">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo,_moschea_di_El-Azhar_(9).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%289%29.jpg/220px-Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%289%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%289%29.jpg/330px-Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%289%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%289%29.jpg/440px-Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%289%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1361" /></a><figcaption>The dome above the entrance to the prayer hall, crafted around 1138 under <a href="/wiki/Al-Hafiz" title="Al-Hafiz">al-Hafiz</a></figcaption></figure> After the conquest of Egypt, Jawhar al-Siqilli oversaw the construction of the royal enclosure for the caliph's court and the Fatimid army, and had al-Azhar built as a base to spread Isma'ili <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shi'a Islam</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi19989-12">[9]</a> Located near the densely populated Sunni city of <a href="/wiki/Fustat" title="Fustat">Fustat</a>, Cairo became the center of the Isma'ili sect of Shi'a Islam, and seat of the Fatimid empire.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998139-13">[10]</a> Jawhar ordered the construction of a congregational mosque for the new city and work commenced on April 4, 970.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195236-8">[6]</a> The mosque was completed in 972 and the first <a href="/wiki/Friday_prayer" title="Friday prayer">Friday prayers</a> were held there on June 22, 972 during <a href="/wiki/Ramadan" title="Ramadan">Ramadan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195236-8">[6]</a> Al-Azhar soon became a center of learning in the Islamic world, and official pronouncements and court sessions were issued from and convened there.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi19989-12">[9]</a> Under Fatimid rule, the previously secretive teachings of the Isma'ili <a href="/wiki/Madh%27hab" class="mw-redirect" title="Madh'hab">madh'hab</a> (school of law) were made available to the general public.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200652-14">[11]</a> <a href="/wiki/Qadi_al-Nu%27man" class="mw-redirect" title="Qadi al-Nu'man">Al-Nu'man ibn Muhammad</a> was appointed <a href="/wiki/Qadi" title="Qadi">qadi</a> (judge) under al-Mu'izz and placed in charge of the teaching of the Isma'ili doctrine.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200652-14">[11]</a> Classes were taught at the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Great_Palaces" title="Fatimid Great Palaces">palace of the caliph</a>, as well as at al-Azhar, with separate sessions available to women.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200653-15">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaftary199896-16">[13]</a> During <a href="/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr" title="Eid al-Fitr">Eid al-Fitr</a> in 973, the mosque was rededicated by the caliph as the official congregational mosque in Cairo. Al-Mu'izz, and his son—when he in turn became caliph—would preach at least one Friday <a href="/wiki/Khutbah" title="Khutbah">khutbah</a> (sermon) during <a href="/wiki/Ramadan" title="Ramadan">Ramadan</a> at al-Azhar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge19616–7-17">[14]</a> <a href="/wiki/Yaqub_ibn_Killis" class="mw-redirect" title="Yaqub ibn Killis">Yaqub ibn Killis</a>, a polymath, jurist and the first official <a href="/wiki/Vizier_(Fatimid_Caliphate)" title="Vizier (Fatimid Caliphate)">vizier</a> of the Fatimids, made al-Azhar a key center for instruction in Islamic law in 988.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaftary199895-18">[15]</a> The following year, 45 scholars were hired to give lessons, laying the foundation for what would become the leading university in the Muslim world.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199258-19">[16]</a> The mosque was expanded during the rule of the caliph al-Aziz Billah. According to <a href="/wiki/Al-Mufaddal_ibn_Abi_al-Fada%27il" title="Al-Mufaddal ibn Abi al-Fada'il">al-Mufaddal</a>, he ordered the restoration of portions of the mosque and had the ceiling raised by one cubit. The next Fatimid caliph, <a href="/wiki/Al-Hakim_bi-Amr_Allah" title="Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah">al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 996–1021), would continue to renovate the mosque, providing a new wooden door in 1010. However, al-Hakim's reign saw the completion of the <a href="/wiki/Al-Hakim_Mosque" title="Al-Hakim Mosque">al-Hakim Mosque</a>, and al-Azhar lost its status as Cairo's primary congregational mosque. In May 1009 the al-Hakim Mosque became the sole location for the caliph's sermons; prior to this, al-Hakim would rotate where the Friday sermon was held. Following al-Hakim's reign, al-Azhar was restored by Caliph <a href="/wiki/Al-Mustansir_Billah" title="Al-Mustansir Billah">al-Mustansir Billah</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 1036–1094). Additions and renovations were carried during the reign of the remaining Fatimid caliphs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195237-20">[17]</a> Caliph <a href="/wiki/Al-Hafiz" title="Al-Hafiz">al-Hafiz</a> undertook a major refurbishment in 1138, which established the <a href="/wiki/Four-centred_arch" title="Four-centred arch">keel-shaped arches</a> and carved <a href="/wiki/Stucco" title="Stucco">stucco</a> decoration seen in the courtyard today, as well as the dome at the central entrance of the prayer hall.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018204-21">[18]</a> Initially lacking a library, al-Azhar was endowed by the Fatimid caliph in 1005 with thousands of manuscripts that formed the basis of its collection.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a> Fatimid efforts to establish Isma'ili practice among the population were, however largely unsuccessful.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998139-13">[10]</a> Much of its manuscript collection was dispersed in the chaos that ensued with the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_the_Fatimid_Caliphate" class="mw-redirect" title="Fall of the Fatimid Caliphate">fall of the Fatimid Caliphate</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a> and Al-Azhar became a Sunni institution shortly thereafter.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998139-13">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ayyubid_dynasty">Ayyubid dynasty</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ayyubid dynasty">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wooden_mihrab_al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Wooden_mihrab_al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/220px-Wooden_mihrab_al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="410" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Wooden_mihrab_al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/330px-Wooden_mihrab_al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Wooden_mihrab_al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/440px-Wooden_mihrab_al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1914" data-file-height="3566" /></a><figcaption>Wooden mihrab in the al-Azhar Mosque with dedicatory inscription and inset carved wooden panels, 1125</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Saladin" title="Saladin">Saladin</a>, who overthrew the Fatimids in 1171, was hostile to the Shi’ite principles of learning propounded at al-Azhar during the Fatimid Caliphate, and under his <a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubid dynasty</a> the mosque suffered from neglect. Congregational prayers were banned by Sadr al-Din ibn Dirbass, appointed qadi by Saladin.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199656-23">[20]</a> The reason for this edict may have been <a href="/wiki/Shafi%60i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi`i">Shāfi‘ī</a> teachings that proscribe congregational prayers in a community to only one mosque, or mistrust of the former Shi'a institution by the new Sunni ruler.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199260-24">[21]</a> By this time, the much larger <a href="/wiki/Al-Hakim_Mosque" title="Al-Hakim Mosque">al-Hakim Mosque</a> was completed; congregational prayers in Cairo were held there.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199656-23">[20]</a> In addition to stripping al-Azhar of its status as congregational mosque, Saladin also ordered the removal from the <a href="/wiki/Mihrab" title="Mihrab">mihrab</a> of the mosque a silver band on which the names of the Fatimid caliphs had been inscribed. This and similar silver bands removed from other mosques totaled 5,000 <a href="/wiki/Dirhem" class="mw-redirect" title="Dirhem">dirhems</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195237-20">[17]</a> Saladin did not completely disregard the upkeep of the mosque and according to al-Mufaddal one of the mosque's minarets was raised during Saladin's rule.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195237-20">[17]</a> The teaching center at the mosque also suffered.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199656-23">[20]</a> The once well stocked library at al-Azhar was neglected, and manuscripts of Fatimid teachings that were held at al-Azhar were destroyed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge196136-25">[22]</a> The Ayyubid dynasty promoted the teaching of Sunni theology in subsidized <a href="/wiki/Madrasa" title="Madrasa">madrasas</a> (schools) built throughout Cairo.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199656-23">[20]</a> Student funding was withdrawn,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199656-23">[20]</a> organized classes were no longer held at the mosque, and the professors that had prospered under the Fatimids were forced to find other means to earn their living.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge196136-25">[22]</a> Al-Azhar nevertheless remained the seat of Arabic <a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philology</a> and a place of learning throughout this period.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199656-23">[20]</a> While official classes were discontinued, private lessons were still offered in the mosque. There are reports that a scholar, possibly <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Latif_al-Baghdadi_(medieval_writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer)">al-Baghdadi</a>, taught a number of subjects, such as law and medicine, at al-Azhar. Saladin reportedly paid him a salary of 30 dinars, which was increased to 100 dinars by Saladin's heirs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge196136-25">[22]</a> While the mosque was neglected by Saladin and his heirs, the policies of the Sunni Ayyubid dynasty would have a lasting impact on al-Azhar. Educational institutions were established by Sunni rulers as a way of combating what they regarded as the heretical teachings of Shi'a Islam. These colleges, ranging in size, focused on teaching Sunni doctrine, had an established and uniform curriculum that included courses outside of purely religious topics, such as rhetorics, math, and science.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge196140–41-26">[23]</a> No such colleges had been established in Egypt by the time of Saladin's conquest. Saladin and the later rulers of the Ayyubid dynasty would build twenty-six colleges in Egypt, among them the <a href="/wiki/Salihiyya_Madrasa" title="Salihiyya Madrasa">Salihiyya Madrasa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge196140-27">[24]</a> Al-Azhar eventually adopted Saladin's educational reforms modeled on the college system he instituted, and its fortunes improved under the <a href="/wiki/Mamluk" title="Mamluk">Mamluks</a>, who restored student stipends and salaries for the <a href="/wiki/Sheikh" title="Sheikh">shuyūkh</a> (teaching staff).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mamluk_Sultanate">Mamluk Sultanate</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mamluk Sultanate">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Murad_Bey_by_Dutertre_in_Description_de_l_Egypte_1809.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A man with a full beard and turban reclines on his right side on a carpet, with his elbow and back resting on a pillow, next to an open arched window. His right hand holds a fly-whisk; in front of him on the floor is a sheathed sword." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Murad_Bey_by_Dutertre_in_Description_de_l_Egypte_1809.jpg/220px-Murad_Bey_by_Dutertre_in_Description_de_l_Egypte_1809.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Murad_Bey_by_Dutertre_in_Description_de_l_Egypte_1809.jpg/330px-Murad_Bey_by_Dutertre_in_Description_de_l_Egypte_1809.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Murad_Bey_by_Dutertre_in_Description_de_l_Egypte_1809.jpg/440px-Murad_Bey_by_Dutertre_in_Description_de_l_Egypte_1809.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1317" data-file-height="1635" /></a><figcaption>A Mamluk bey</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Le_Caire._Porte_int%C3%A9rieure_de_la_mosqu%C3%A9e_el-Azhar_-_Bonfils._LCCN2004668144.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Le_Caire._Porte_int%C3%A9rieure_de_la_mosqu%C3%A9e_el-Azhar_-_Bonfils._LCCN2004668144.jpg/220px-Le_Caire._Porte_int%C3%A9rieure_de_la_mosqu%C3%A9e_el-Azhar_-_Bonfils._LCCN2004668144.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Le_Caire._Porte_int%C3%A9rieure_de_la_mosqu%C3%A9e_el-Azhar_-_Bonfils._LCCN2004668144.jpg/330px-Le_Caire._Porte_int%C3%A9rieure_de_la_mosqu%C3%A9e_el-Azhar_-_Bonfils._LCCN2004668144.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Le_Caire._Porte_int%C3%A9rieure_de_la_mosqu%C3%A9e_el-Azhar_-_Bonfils._LCCN2004668144.jpg/440px-Le_Caire._Porte_int%C3%A9rieure_de_la_mosqu%C3%A9e_el-Azhar_-_Bonfils._LCCN2004668144.jpg 2x" data-file-width="794" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>The Gate of Sultan <a href="/wiki/Qaitbay" title="Qaitbay">Qaytbay</a>, built in the late 15th century (photo from 1867)</figcaption></figure> Congregational prayers were reestablished at al-Azhar during the <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate_(Cairo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)">Mamluk Sultanate</a> by <a href="/wiki/Baibars" class="mw-redirect" title="Baibars">Sultan Baibars</a> in 1266. While Shāfi‘ī teachings, which Saladin and the Ayyubids followed, stipulated that only one mosque should be used as a congregational mosque in a community, the <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> madh'hab, to which the Mamluks adhered, placed no such restriction.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199260-24">[21]</a> Al-Azhar had by now lost its association with the Fatimids and Ismāʿīli doctrines, and with Cairo's rapid expansion, the need for mosque space allowed Baibars to disregard al-Azhar's history and restore the mosque to its former prominence. Under Baibars and the Mamluk Sultanate, al-Azhar saw the return of stipends for students and teachers, as well as the onset of work to repair the mosque, which had been neglected for nearly 100 years.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELulat200577-28">[25]</a> According to al-Mufaddal, the emir 'Izz al-Din Aydamur al-Hilli built his house next to the mosque and while doing so repaired the mosque. Al-Maqrizi reports that the emir repaired the walls and roof as well as repaving and providing new floor mats. The first khutbah since the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim took place on 16 January 1266 with the sermon delivered on a new pulpit completed five days earlier.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195237–38-29">[26]</a> An earthquake in 1302 caused damage to al-Azhar and a number of other mosques throughout Mamluk territory. The responsibility for reconstruction was split among the <a href="/wiki/Amir" class="mw-redirect" title="Amir">amirs</a> (princes) of the Sultanate and the head of the army, <a href="/wiki/Sayf_al-Din_Salar" title="Sayf al-Din Salar">Sayf al-Din Salar</a>, who was tasked with repairing the damage. These repairs were the first done since the reign of Baibars.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199657-30">[27]</a> Seven years later, a dedicated school, the Madrasa al-Aqbughawiyya, was built along the northwest wall of the mosque. Portions of the wall of the mosque were removed to accommodate the new building. Construction of another school, the Madrasa al-Taybarsiyya began in 1332–1333. This building, which was completed in 1339-1340, would also impact the structure of the mosque as it was built over the site of the mida'a, the fountain for <a href="/wiki/Wudu" title="Wudu">ablution</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195237–38-29">[26]</a> Both of the madrasas were built as complementary buildings to al-Azhar, with separate entrances and prayer halls.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199657-30">[27]</a> Though the mosque had regained its standing in Cairo, repairs and additional work were carried out by those in positions lower than sultan. This changed under the rule of <a href="/wiki/Barquq" title="Barquq">al-Zahir Barquq</a>, the first sultan of the <a href="/wiki/Burji_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Burji dynasty">Burji dynasty</a>. Both Sultan Barquq and then Sultan <a href="/wiki/Al-Mu%27ayyad" title="Al-Mu'ayyad">al-Mu'ayyad</a> tried, in 1397 and 1424 respectively, to replace the minaret of al-Azhar with a new one in stone, but on both occasions the construction was found to be defective and had to be pulled down.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199260-24">[21]</a> The resumption of direct patronage by those in the highest positions of government continued through to the end of Mamluk rule. Improvements and additions were made by the sultans <a href="/wiki/Qaytbay" class="mw-redirect" title="Qaytbay">Qaytbay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Qansuh_al-Ghuri" class="mw-redirect" title="Qansuh al-Ghuri">Qansuh al-Ghuri</a>, each of whom oversaw numerous repairs and erected <a href="/wiki/Minaret" title="Minaret">minarets</a> that still stand today.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199658-31">[28]</a> It was common practice among the Mamluk sultans to build minarets, perceived as symbols of power and the most effective way of cementing one's position in the Cairo cityscape. The sultans wished to have a noticeable association with the prestigious al-Azhar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199658-31">[28]</a> Al-Ghuri may also have rebuilt the dome in front of the original mihrab.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199648-32">[29]</a> Although the mosque-school was the leading university in the Islamic world and had regained royal patronage, it did not overtake the madrasas as the favored place of education among Cairo's elite. Al-Azhar maintained its reputation as an independent place of learning, whereas the madrasas that had first been constructed during Saladin's rule were fully integrated into the state educational system. Al-Azhar did continue to attract students from other areas in Egypt and the Middle East, far surpassing the numbers attending the madrasas.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199659-33">[30]</a> Al-Azhar's student body was organized in riwaqs (fraternities) along national lines, and the branches of Islamic law were studied. The average degree required six years of study.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a> By the 14th century, al-Azhar had achieved a preeminent place as the center for studies in law, theology, and Arabic, becoming a cynosure for students all around the Islamic world.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a> However, only one third of the <a href="/wiki/Ulema" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulema">ulema</a> (Islamic scholars) of Egypt were reported to have either attended or taught at al-Azhar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199659-33">[30]</a> One account, by <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Iyas" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad ibn Iyas">Muhammad ibn Iyas</a>, reports that the Salihiyya Madrasa, and not al-Azhar, was viewed as the "citadel of the ulema" at the end of the Mamluk Sultanate.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinter2004115-34">[31]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Province_of_the_Ottoman_Empire">Province of the Ottoman Empire</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Province of the Ottoman Empire">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al-Azhar_bab_al-muzaynin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Two arched entrance-ways in the portico of a large two-story building face a street. Above the arches the building's wall is carved and ornamented. To the right, the building rises to a third story. Behind the wall two minarets framing the top of a dome are visible." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Al-Azhar_bab_al-muzaynin.jpg/220px-Al-Azhar_bab_al-muzaynin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Al-Azhar_bab_al-muzaynin.jpg/330px-Al-Azhar_bab_al-muzaynin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Al-Azhar_bab_al-muzaynin.jpg/440px-Al-Azhar_bab_al-muzaynin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Bab al-Muzayinīn (Gate of the Barbers), built by Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda during <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> rule. The minaret on the left, atop the Madrasa al-Aqbughawiyya, was also remodeled by Katkhuda, before being remodeled again in the 20th century.</figcaption></figure> With the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> annexation of 1517, despite the mayhem their fight to control the city engendered, the Turks showed great deference to the mosque and its college, though direct royal patronage ceased.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199659-33">[30]</a> Sultan <a href="/wiki/Selim_I" title="Selim I">Selim I</a>, the first Ottoman ruler of Egypt, attended al-Azhar for the congregational <a href="/wiki/Jumu%27ah" class="mw-redirect" title="Jumu'ah">Friday prayer</a> during his last week in Egypt, but did not donate anything to the upkeep of the mosque. Later Ottoman amirs likewise regularly attended Friday prayers at al-Azhar, but rarely provided subsidies for the maintenance of the mosque, though they did on occasion provide stipends for students and teachers. In contrast to the expansions and additions undertaken during the Mamluk Sultanate, only two Ottoman <a href="/wiki/W%C4%81li#Ottoman_Empire_term" class="mw-redirect" title="Wāli">walīs</a> (governors) restored al-Azhar in the early Ottoman period.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199659-33">[30]</a> Despite their defeat by Selim I and the Ottomans in 1517, the Mamluks remained influential in Egyptian society, becoming <a href="/wiki/Bey" title="Bey">beys</a> ("chieftains"), nominally under the control of the Ottoman governors, instead of amirs at the head of an empire.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199659-33">[30]</a> The first governor of Egypt under Selim I was <a href="/wiki/Khai%27r_Bey" class="mw-redirect" title="Khai'r Bey">Khai'r Bey</a>, a Mamluk amir who had defected to the Ottomans during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Marj_Dabiq" title="Battle of Marj Dabiq">Battle of Marj Dabiq</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinter200412-35">[32]</a> Though the Mamluks launched multiple revolts to reinstate their Sultanate, including two in 1523,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinter200414-36">[33]</a> the Ottomans refrained from completely destroying the Mamluk hold over the power structure of Egypt. The Mamluks did suffer losses—both economic and military—in the immediate aftermath of the Ottoman victory, and this was reflected in the lack of financial assistance provided to al-Azhar in the first hundred years of Ottoman rule. By the 18th century the Mamluk elite had regained much of its influence and began to sponsor numerous renovations throughout Cairo and at al-Azhar specifically.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199659-33">[30]</a> Al-Qazdughli, a powerful Mamluk bey, sponsored several additions and renovations in the early 18th century. Under his direction, a riwaq for blind students was added in 1735. He also sponsored the rebuilding of the Turkish and Syrian riwaqs, both of which had originally been built by Qaytbay.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199659–60-37">[34]</a> This marked the beginning of the largest set of renovations to be undertaken since the expansions conducted under the Mamluk Sultanate. Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda was appointed katkhuda (head of the <a href="/wiki/Janissary" title="Janissary">Janissaries</a>) in 1749 and embarked on several projects throughout Cairo and at al-Azhar. Under his direction, three new gates were built: the Bab al-Muzayinīn (the Gate of the Barbers), so named because students would have their heads shaved outside of the gate, which eventually became the main entrance to the mosque; the Bab al-Sa'ayida (the Gate of the Sa'idis), named for the <a href="/wiki/Sa%27idi_people" title="Sa'idi people">Sa'idi people</a> of <a href="/wiki/Upper_Egypt" title="Upper Egypt">Upper Egypt</a>; and, several years later, the Bab al-Shurba (the Soup Gate), from which food, often rice soup, would be served to the students. A prayer hall was added to the south of the original one, doubling the size of the available prayer space. Katkhuda also refurbished or rebuilt several of the riwaqs that surrounded the mosque. Katkhuda was buried in a mausoleum he himself had built in Al-Azhar; in 1776, he became the first person (and the last) to be interred within the mosque since Nafissa al-Bakriyya, a female mystic who had died around 1588.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199649–50-38">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199660–61-39">[36]</a> During the Ottoman period, al-Azhar regained its status as a favored institution of learning in Egypt, overtaking the madrasas that had been originally instituted by Saladin and greatly expanded by the Mamluks. By the end of the 18th century, al-Azhar had become inextricably linked to the ulema of Egypt.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinter2004115-34">[31]</a> The ulema also were able to influence the government in an official capacity, with several sheikhs appointed to advisory councils that reported to the <a href="/wiki/Pasha" title="Pasha">pasha</a> (honorary governor), who in turn was appointed for only one year.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbu_ZaydAmirpurSetiawan200636-40">[37]</a> This period also saw the introduction of more secular courses taught at al-Azhar, with science and logic joining philosophy in the curriculum.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERahman198436-41">[38]</a> During this period, al-Azhar saw its first non-<a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> rector; Abdullah al-Shubrawi, a follower of the <a href="/wiki/Shafii" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafii">Shafii</a> <a href="/wiki/Madhab" class="mw-redirect" title="Madhab">madhab</a>, was appointed rector.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeyworth-Dunne1938681-42">[39]</a> No follower of the Maliki madhab would serve as rector until 1899 when Salim al-Bishri was appointed to the post. Al-Azhar also served as a focal point for protests against the Ottoman occupation of Egypt, both from within the ulema and from among the general public. Student protests at al-Azhar were common, and shops in the vicinity of the mosque would often close out of solidarity with the students.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinter2004120-43">[40]</a> The ulema was also on occasion able to defy the government. In one instance, in 1730–31, Ottoman <a href="/wiki/Agha_(Ottoman_Empire)" class="mw-redirect" title="Agha (Ottoman Empire)">aghas</a> harassed the residents living near al-Azhar while pursuing three fugitives. The gates at al-Azhar were closed in protest and the Ottoman governor, fearing a larger uprising, ordered the aghas to refrain from going near al-Azhar. Another disturbance occurred in 1791 in which the wāli harassed the people near the <a href="/wiki/Al-Hussein_Mosque" title="Al-Hussein Mosque">al-Hussein Mosque</a>, who then went to al-Azhar to demonstrate. The wāli was subsequently dismissed from his post.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinter2004121-44">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_occupation">French occupation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: French occupation">edit</a>]</div> Napoleon <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Campaign_in_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt">invaded</a> Egypt in July 1798, arriving in <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> on July 2 and moving on to Cairo on July 22.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaymond2000293-45">[42]</a> In a bid to placate both the Egyptian population and the Ottoman Empire, Napoleon gave a speech in Alexandria in which he proclaimed his respect for Islam and the Sultan: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">People of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion: do not believe it! Answer that I have come to restore your rights and punish the usurpers, and that, more than the Mamluks, I respect God, his Prophet and the Koran ... Is it not we who have been through the centuries the friends of the Sultan?<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson200313–14-46">[43]</a></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Napoleon_presents_tricolor_to_Mamluk_Bey.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A man in a late 17th-century French military uniform, wearing a bicorne hat decorated with three large plumes or leaves stands on the right of the image, a sheathed sword at his left side. He is presenting a red white and blue scarf to a full-bearded man on the left of the image. The man accepting the scarf stands with his head slightly bowed and palms crossed and flat on his chest, wearing a large square turban and long blue and gold caftan that reaches his feet. To his left is a palm tree, and in the far background pyramids and camels." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Napoleon_presents_tricolor_to_Mamluk_Bey.jpg/220px-Napoleon_presents_tricolor_to_Mamluk_Bey.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Napoleon_presents_tricolor_to_Mamluk_Bey.jpg/330px-Napoleon_presents_tricolor_to_Mamluk_Bey.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Napoleon_presents_tricolor_to_Mamluk_Bey.jpg 2x" data-file-width="389" data-file-height="512" /></a><figcaption>Napoleon presenting an Egyptian bey a tricolor scarf (1798–1800)</figcaption></figure> On July 25 <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon I of France">Napoleon</a> set up a <a href="/wiki/Divan" title="Divan">diwan</a> made up of nine al-Azhar sheikhs tasked with governing Cairo, the first body of Egyptians to hold official powers since the beginning of the Ottoman occupation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaymond2000293-45">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199661-47">[44]</a> This practice of forming councils among the ulema of a city, first instituted in Alexandria, was put in place throughout French-occupied Egypt.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDwyer2008380-48">[45]</a> Napoleon also unsuccessfully sought a <a href="/wiki/Fatwa" title="Fatwa">fatwa</a> from the al-Azhar imams that would deem it permissible under Islamic law to declare allegiance to Napoleon.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson200313–14-46">[43]</a> Napoleon's efforts to win over both the Egyptians and the Ottomans proved unsuccessful; the Ottoman Empire declared war on 9 September 1798, and a revolt against French troops was launched from al-Azhar on 21 October 1798.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson200314-49">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGregor200643-50">[47]</a> Egyptians armed with stones, spears, and knives rioted and looted.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFlower197649-51">[48]</a> The following morning the diwan met with Napoleon in an attempt to bring about a peaceful conclusion to the hostilities. Napoleon, initially incensed, agreed to attempt a peaceful resolution and asked the sheikhs of the diwan to organize talks with the rebels. The rebels, believing the move indicated weakness among the French, refused.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDwyer2008403-52">[49]</a> Napoleon then ordered that the city be fired upon from the <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Citadel" title="Cairo Citadel">Cairo Citadel</a>, aiming directly at al-Azhar. During the revolt two to three hundred French soldiers were killed, with 3,000 Egyptian casualties.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDwyer2008404-53">[50]</a> Six of the <a href="/wiki/Ulema" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulema">ulema</a> of al-Azhar were killed following summary judgments laid against them, with several more condemned.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichmond197725-54">[51]</a> Any Egyptian caught by French troops was imprisoned or, if caught bearing weapons, beheaded.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsprey2000293-55">[52]</a> The French troops intentionally desecrated the mosque, walking in with their shoes on and guns displayed. The troops tied their horses to the mihrab and ransacked the student quarters and libraries, throwing copies of the Quran on the floor. The leaders of the revolt then attempted to negotiate a settlement with Napoleon, but were rebuffed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDwyer2008404-53">[50]</a> Napoleon, who had been well respected in Egypt and had earned himself the nickname Sultan el-Kebir (the Great Sultan) among the people of Cairo, lost their admiration and was no longer so addressed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFlower197627-56">[53]</a> In March 1800, French General <a href="/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Kl%C3%A9ber" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Baptiste Kléber">Jean Baptiste Kléber</a> was assassinated by <a href="/wiki/Suleiman_al-Halabi" title="Suleiman al-Halabi">Suleiman al-Halabi</a>, a student at al-Azhar. Following the assassination, Napoleon ordered the closing of the mosque; the doors remained bolted until Ottoman and British assistance arrived in August 1801.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199661-47">[44]</a> The conservative tradition of the mosque, with its lack of attention to science, was shaken by Napoleon's invasion. A seminal innovation occurred with the introduction of printing presses to Egypt, finally enabling the curriculum to shift from oral lectures and memorization to instruction by text, though the mosque itself only acquired its own printing press in 1930.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199811-57">[54]</a> Upon the withdrawal of the French, <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt" title="Muhammad Ali of Egypt">Muhammad Ali Pasha</a> encouraged the establishment of secular learning, and history, math, and modern science were adopted into the curriculum. By 1872, under the direction of <a href="/wiki/Jamal-al-Din_Afghani" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamal-al-Din Afghani">Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī</a>, <a href="/wiki/European_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="European philosophy">European philosophy</a> was also added to the study program.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199811-57">[54]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Muhammad_Ali_Dynasty_and_British_occupation">Muhammad Ali Dynasty and British occupation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Muhammad Ali Dynasty and British occupation">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ModernEgypt,_Muhammad_Ali_by_Auguste_Couder,_BAP_17996.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A man with a full white beard and long trained mustache faces the viewer. He wears a white turban and back robe. High on his waist is a gold sash decorated with purple and orange stripes. His left hand holds a cord that goes across his chest, and is connected to a sheathed sword in front of him." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/ModernEgypt%2C_Muhammad_Ali_by_Auguste_Couder%2C_BAP_17996.jpg/220px-ModernEgypt%2C_Muhammad_Ali_by_Auguste_Couder%2C_BAP_17996.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/ModernEgypt%2C_Muhammad_Ali_by_Auguste_Couder%2C_BAP_17996.jpg/330px-ModernEgypt%2C_Muhammad_Ali_by_Auguste_Couder%2C_BAP_17996.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/ModernEgypt%2C_Muhammad_Ali_by_Auguste_Couder%2C_BAP_17996.jpg/440px-ModernEgypt%2C_Muhammad_Ali_by_Auguste_Couder%2C_BAP_17996.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4638" data-file-height="5862" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt" title="Muhammad Ali of Egypt">Muhammad Ali</a>, founder of the Alawiyya Dynasty which ruled Egypt from 1805 until the Egyptian Revolution in 1952</figcaption></figure> Following the French withdrawal, Ali, the <a href="/wiki/W%C4%81li" class="mw-redirect" title="Wāli">wāli</a> (governor) and self-declared <a href="/wiki/Khedive" title="Khedive">khedive</a> (viceroy) of Egypt, sought to consolidate his newfound control of the country. To achieve this goal he took a number of steps to limit, and eventually eliminate, the ability of the al-Azhar ulema to influence the government. He imposed taxes on rizqa lands (tax-free property owned by mosques) and madrasas, from which al-Azhar drew a major portion of its income.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199661-47">[44]</a> In June 1809, he ordered that the deeds to all rizqa lands be forfeited to the state in a move that provoked outrage among the ulema. As a result, Umar Makram, the <a href="/wiki/Naqib_al-ashraf" title="Naqib al-ashraf">naqib al-ashraf</a>, a prestigious Islamic post, led a revolt in July 1809. The revolt failed and Makram, an influential ally of the ulema, was exiled to <a href="/wiki/Damietta" title="Damietta">Damietta</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998148-58">[55]</a> Ali also sought to limit the influence of the al-Azhar sheikhs by allocating positions within the government to those educated outside of al-Azhar. He sent select students to France to be educated under a Western system and created an educational system based on that model that was parallel to, and thus bypassed, the system of al-Azhar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199661-47">[44]</a> Under the rule of <a href="/wiki/Isma%27il_Pasha" class="mw-redirect" title="Isma'il Pasha">Isma'il Pasha</a>, the grandson of Muhammad Ali, major public works projects were initiated with the aim of transforming Cairo into a European styled city.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaymond2000312-59">[56]</a> These projects, at first funded by a boom in the cotton industry, eventually racked up a massive debt which was held by the British, providing an excuse for the British to occupy Egypt in 1882 after having pushed out Isma'il Pasha in 1879.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaymond2000312-59">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShillington2005199-60">[57]</a> The reign of Isma'il Pasha also saw the return of royal patronage to al-Azhar. As khedive, Isma'il restored the Bab al-Sa'ayida (first built by Katkhuda) and the Madrasa al-Aqbughawiyya. <a href="/wiki/Tewfik_Pasha" title="Tewfik Pasha">Tewfik Pasha</a>, Isma'il's son, who became khedive when his father was deposed as a result of British pressure, continued to restore the mosque. Tewfik renovated the prayer hall that was added by Katkhuda, aligned the southeastern facade of the hall with the street behind it, and remodeled the facade of the Madrasa al-Aqbughawiya along with several other areas of the mosque. <a href="/wiki/Abbas_II_of_Egypt" title="Abbas II of Egypt">Abbas Hilmi II</a> succeeded his father Tewfik as khedive of Egypt and Sudan in 1892, and continued the renovations started by his grandfather Isma'il. He restructured the main facade of the mosque and built a new three-story riwaq in neo-Mamluk style along the mosque's southwestern corner (known as the Riwaq al-'Abbasi) which was completed in 1901. Under his rule, the <a href="/wiki/Comit%C3%A9_de_Conservation_des_Monuments_de_l%27Art_Arabe" title="Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe">Committee for the Conservation of Monuments of Arab Art</a> (also known as the "Comité"), also restored the original Fatimid <a href="/wiki/Sahn" title="Sahn">sahn</a>. These renovations were both needed and helped modernize al-Azhar and harmonize it with what was becoming a metropolis.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199662-61">[58]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Courtyard_of_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Courtyard_of_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/220px-Courtyard_of_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Courtyard_of_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/330px-Courtyard_of_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Courtyard_of_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/440px-Courtyard_of_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="632" data-file-height="774" /></a><figcaption>Courtyard of Al-Azhar Mosque, c. 1900</figcaption></figure> The major set of reforms that began under the rule of Isma'il Pasha continued under the British occupation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199812-62">[59]</a> Muhammad Mahdi al-'Abbasi, sheikh al-Azhar, had instituted a set of reforms in 1872 intended to provide structure to the hiring practices of the university as well as to standardize the examinations taken by students. Further efforts to modernize the educational system were made under Hilmi's rule during the British occupation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199663-63">[60]</a> The mosque's manuscripts were gathered into a centralized library, sanitation for students improved, and a regular system of exams instituted. From 1885, other colleges in Egypt were placed directly under the administration of the al-Azhar Mosque.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199812-62">[59]</a> During <a href="/wiki/Saad_Zaghloul" title="Saad Zaghloul">Sa'ad Zaghloul</a>'s term as minister of education, before he went on to lead the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1919" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Revolution of 1919">Egyptian Revolution of 1919</a>, further efforts were made to modify the educational policy of al-Azhar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199663-63">[60]</a> While a bastion of conservatism in many regards, the mosque was opposed to Islamic fundamentalism, especially as espoused by the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood" title="Muslim Brotherhood">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, founded in 1928.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199812-62">[59]</a> The school attracted students from throughout the world, including students from <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a> and particularly <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, providing a counterbalance to the influence of the <a href="/wiki/Wahhabi" class="mw-redirect" title="Wahhabi">Wahhabis</a> in <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbu_ZaydAmirpurSetiawan200619-64">[61]</a> Under the reign of King <a href="/wiki/Fuad_I_of_Egypt" title="Fuad I of Egypt">Fuad I</a>, two laws were passed that reorganized the educational structure at al-Azhar. The first of these, in 1930, split the school into three departments: Arabic language, <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">sharia</a>, and theology, with each department located in buildings outside of the mosque throughout Cairo.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199663-63">[60]</a> Additionally, formal examinations were required to earn a degree in one of these three fields of study.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERahman198464-65">[62]</a> Six years later, a second law was passed that moved the main office for the school to a newly constructed building across the street from the mosque. Additional structures were later added to supplement the three departmental buildings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199663-63">[60]</a> The ideas advocated by several influential reformers in the early 1900s, such as <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Abduh" title="Muhammad Abduh">Muhammad Abduh</a> and Muhammad al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri, began to take hold at al-Azhar in 1928, with the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Mustafa_al-Maraghi" title="Mustafa al-Maraghi">Mustafa al-Maraghi</a> as rector. A follower of Abduh, the majority of the ulema opposed his appointment.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERahman198464-65">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVoll1994183-66">[63]</a> Al-Maraghi and his successors began a series of modernizing reforms of the mosque and its school, expanding programs outside of the traditional subjects. Fuad disliked al-Maraghi, and had him replaced after one year by al-Zawahiri, but al-Maraghi would return to the post of rector in 1935, serving until his death in 1945. Under his leadership, al-Azhar's curriculum was expanded to include non-Arabic languages and modern sciences.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldschmidt2000123-67">[64]</a> Al-Zawahiri, who had also been opposed by the ulema of the early 1900s, continued the efforts to modernize and reform al-Azhar. Following al-Maraghi's second term as rector, another student of Abduh was appointed rector.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVoll1994183-66">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post_1952_revolution">Post 1952 revolution</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Post 1952 revolution">edit</a>]</div> Following the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1952" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Revolution of 1952">Egyptian Revolution of 1952</a>, led by the <a href="/wiki/Free_Officers_Movement_(Egypt)" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Officers Movement (Egypt)">Free Officers Movement</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Naguib" title="Mohamed Naguib">Mohamed Naguib</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser" title="Gamal Abdel Nasser">Gamal Abdel Nasser</a>, in which the <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad Ali Dynasty">Egyptian monarchy</a> was overthrown, the university began to be separated from the mosque.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199811-57">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199813-68">[65]</a> A number of properties that surrounded the mosque were acquired and demolished to provide space for a modern campus by 1955. The mosque itself would no longer serve as a school, and the college was officially designated a university in 1961.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199663-63">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199813-68">[65]</a> The 1961 law separated the dual roles of the educational institution and the religious institution which made judgments heeded throughout the Muslim world.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200250–51-69">[66]</a> The law also created secular departments within al-Azhar, such as colleges of medicine, engineering, and economics, furthering the efforts at modernization first seen following the French occupation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZaman200260-70">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETibi2006173-71">[68]</a> The reforms of the curriculum have led to a massive growth in the number of Egyptian students attending al-Azhar run schools, specifically youths attending primary and secondary schools within the al-Azhar system. The number of students reported to attend al-Azhar primary and secondary schools increased from under 90,000 in 1970 to 300,000 in the early 1980s, up to nearly one million in the early 1990s, and exceeding 1.3 million students in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZaman200286-72">[69]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZeghal2007110-73">[70]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gamal_Nasser.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A smiling man with a black mustache faces the viewer's left. His hair is dark and short, white at the temples. He is wearing a western-style two-piece gray suit and white shirt, with an angularly striped tie and visible white pocket handkerchief. Behind him several faces are visible." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Gamal_Nasser.jpg/220px-Gamal_Nasser.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Gamal_Nasser.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="346" /></a><figcaption>Gamal Abdel Nasser, who led the Egyptian Revolution in 1952 with Mohamed Naguib, instituted several reforms of al-Azhar</figcaption></figure> During his tenure as Prime Minister, and later President, Nasser continued the efforts to limit the power of the ulema of al-Azhar and to use its influence to his advantage. In 1952, the <a href="/wiki/Waqf" title="Waqf">waqfs</a> were nationalized and placed under the authority of the newly created <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Awqaf_(Egypt)" title="Ministry of Awqaf (Egypt)">Ministry of Religious Endowments</a>, cutting off the ability of the mosque to control its financial affairs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200249–50-74">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZeghal1999372-75">[72]</a> He abolished the sharia courts, merging religious courts with the state judicial system in 1955, severely limiting the independence of the ulema.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZeghal1999372-75">[72]</a> The 1961 reform law, which invalidated an earlier law passed in 1936 that had guaranteed the independence of al-Azhar, gave the President of Egypt the authority to appoint the sheikh al-Azhar, a position first created during Ottoman rule and chosen from and by the ulema since its inception.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGhazzal200579-76">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELulat200579-77">[74]</a> Al-Azhar, which remained a symbol of the Islamic character of both the nation and the state, continued to influence the population while being unable to exert its will over the state. Al-Azhar became increasingly co-opted into the state bureaucracy after the revolution—independence of its curriculum and its function as a mosque ceased.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBinder1988340-78">[75]</a> The authority of the ulema were further weakened by the creation of government agencies responsible for providing interpretations of religious laws.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200251-79">[76]</a> While these reforms dramatically curtailed the independence of the ulema, they also had the effect of reestablishing their influence by integrating them further into the state apparatus.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZeghal1999374-80">[77]</a> The 1961 reform law also provided the ulema with the resources of the state, though the purse strings were outside of their control.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZeghal1999375-81">[78]</a> While Nasser sought to subjugate the ulema beneath the state, he did not allow more extreme proposals to limit the influence of al-Azhar. One such proposal was made by <a href="/wiki/Taha_Hussein" title="Taha Hussein">Taha Hussein</a> in 1955. Hussein sought to dismantle the Azharite primary and secondary educational system and transform the university into a faculty of theology which would be included within the modern, secular, collegiate educational system. The ulema opposed this plan, though Nasser's choice of maintaining al-Azhar's status was due more to personal political considerations, such as the use of al-Azhar to grant legitimacy to the regime, than on the opposition of the ulema.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZeghal1999376-82">[79]</a> Al-Azhar, now fully integrated as an arm of the government, was then used to justify actions of the government. Although the ulema had in the past issued rulings that <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a> is irreconcilable with Islam, following the Revolution's land reforms new rulings were supplied giving Nasser a religious justification for what he termed an "Islamic" socialism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200252-83">[80]</a> The ulema would also serve as a counterweight to the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood" title="Muslim Brotherhood">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, and to Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi influence.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAburish2004200-84">[81]</a> An assassination attempt on Nasser was blamed on the Brotherhood, and the organization was outlawed. Nasser, needing support from the ulema as he initiated mass arrests of Brotherhood members, relaxed some of the restrictions placed on al-Azhar. The ulema of al-Azhar in turn consistently supported him in his attempts to dismantle the Brotherhood, and continued to do so in subsequent regimes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200251-79">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShillington2005478-85">[82]</a> Despite the efforts of Nasser and al-Azhar to discredit the Brotherhood, the organization continued to function.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAburish200488-86">[83]</a> Al-Azhar also provided legitimacy for <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">war with Israel</a> in 1967, declaring the conflict against Israel a "holy struggle".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200231-87">[84]</a> Following Nasser's death in 1970, <a href="/wiki/Anwar_Sadat" title="Anwar Sadat">Anwar Sadat</a> became President of Egypt. Sadat wished to restore al-Azhar as a symbol of Egyptian leadership throughout the Arab world, saying that "the Arab world cannot function without Egypt and its Azhar".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200254-88">[85]</a> Recognizing the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sadat relaxed several restrictions on the Brotherhood and the ulema as a whole. However, in an abrupt about-face, in September 1971 a crackdown was launched on journalists and organizations that Sadat felt were undermining or attacking his positions. As part of this effort to silence criticism of his policies, Sadat instituted sanctions against any of the ulema who criticized or contradicted official state policies. The ulema of al-Azhar continued to be used as a tool of the government, sparking criticism among several groups, including <a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamist</a> and other more moderate groups.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200231-87">[84]</a> <a href="/wiki/Shukri_Mustafa" title="Shukri Mustafa">Shukri Mustafa</a>, an influential Islamist figure, accused the ulema of providing religious judgments for the sole purpose of government convenience.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200254-88">[85]</a> When Sadat needed support for making peace with Israel, which the vast majority of the Egyptian population regarded as an enemy, al-Azhar provided a decree stating that the time had come to make peace.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200231-87">[84]</a> <a href="/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak" title="Hosni Mubarak">Hosni Mubarak</a> succeeded Sadat as President of Egypt following Sadat's assassination in 1981. While al-Azhar would continue to oblige the government in granting a religious legitimacy to its dictates, the mosque and its clergy were given more autonomy under Mubarak's regime. Under <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jad_al-Haq&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jad al-Haq (page does not exist)">Jad al-Haq</a>, the sheikh of al-Azhar from 1982 until his death in 1994, al-Azhar asserted its independence from the state, at times criticizing policies of the state for instigating extremist Islamist sects. Al-Haq argued that if the government wished al-Azhar to effectively combat groups such as <a href="/wiki/Al-Gama%27a_al-Islamiyya" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya">al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya</a> then al-Azhar must be permitted greater independence from the state and for it to be allowed to make religious declarations without interference.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarraclough1998239–240-89">[86]</a> Under Mubarak, a number of powers of the state were ceded to al-Azhar. During the 1990s, modifications to existing censorship laws gave al-Azhar the ability to censor both print and electronic media. Though the law stipulates that al-Azhar may only become involved following a complaint, in practice its role has been much more pervasive; for example, television scripts were routinely sent to al-Azhar for approval prior to airing.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarraclough1998242–243-90">[87]</a> Al-Azhar continues to hold a status above other Sunni religious authorities throughout the world, and as Sunnis form a large majority of the total Muslim population al-Azhar exerts considerable influence on the Islamic world as a whole.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERahman198431-91">[88]</a> In addition to being the default authority within Egypt, al-Azhar has been looked to outside of Egypt for religious judgments. Prior to the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a>, Saudi Arabia's <a href="/wiki/Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Fahd of Saudi Arabia">King Fahd</a> asked for a fatwa authorizing the stationing of foreign troops within the kingdom, and despite Islam's two holiest sites being located within Saudi Arabia, he asked the head sheikh of al-Azhar instead of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Mufti_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia">Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETibi2006165-92">[89]</a> In 2003, <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy" title="Nicolas Sarkozy">Nicolas Sarkozy</a>, at the time <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_the_Interior_(France)" title="Minister of the Interior (France)">French Minister of the Interior</a>, requested a judgment from al-Azhar allowing Muslim girls to not wear the <a href="/wiki/Hijab" title="Hijab">hijab</a> in French public schools, despite the existence of the <a href="/wiki/French_Council_of_the_Muslim_Faith" title="French Council of the Muslim Faith">French Council of Islam</a>. The sheikh of al-Azhar provided the ruling, saying that while wearing the hijab is an "Islamic duty" the Muslim women of France are obligated to respect and follow French laws. The ruling drew much criticism within Egypt as compromising Islamic principles to convenience the French government, and in turn the Egyptian government.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZeghal2007123-93">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post_2011_revolution">Post 2011 revolution</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Post 2011 revolution">edit</a>]</div> Al-Azhar was not unaffected by the <a href="/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution" title="2011 Egyptian revolution">2011 Egyptian revolution</a> that saw the removal of Hosni Mubarak as president of Egypt. Student government elections in the months following the revolution resulted in an overwhelming victory for the once banned <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood" title="Muslim Brotherhood">Muslim Brotherhood</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrown201110-94">[91]</a> Protests demanding that the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Council_of_the_Armed_Forces" title="Supreme Council of the Armed Forces">military junta ruling Egypt</a> restore the mosque's independence from the state broke out, and the mosque itself commissioned the writing of a draft law that would grant al-Azhar greater independence from the government.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrown201110-94">[91]</a> Within al-Azhar, debate on its future and rightful role within the state has replaced what had been a mollified single-voice in support of the policies of the Mubarak regime.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrown201111-95">[92]</a> The various views on al-Azhar's future role in Egypt come from several parties, including leading <a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamist</a> organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, liberal voices that wish to see al-Azhar stand as a bulwark against ultra-conservative Islamists (known as <a href="/wiki/Salafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Salafi">Salafists</a>), and those that hope to see al-Azhar become wholly independent from the state and in complete control of its finances, leadership, and further that it be placed in charge of the religious ministries of the state.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrown201111–15-96">[93]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al-Azhar_Mosque_(R_Prazeres_2019)_DSCF4364.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Al-Azhar_Mosque_%28R_Prazeres_2019%29_DSCF4364.jpg/220px-Al-Azhar_Mosque_%28R_Prazeres_2019%29_DSCF4364.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Al-Azhar_Mosque_%28R_Prazeres_2019%29_DSCF4364.jpg/330px-Al-Azhar_Mosque_%28R_Prazeres_2019%29_DSCF4364.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Al-Azhar_Mosque_%28R_Prazeres_2019%29_DSCF4364.jpg/440px-Al-Azhar_Mosque_%28R_Prazeres_2019%29_DSCF4364.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>The mosque in 2019, after a recent restoration</figcaption></figure> In 2018 a major restoration of the mosque was completed, financed by both <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Abdullah of Saudi Arabia">King Abdullah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Salman_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Salman of Saudi Arabia">King Salman</a> of Saudi Arabia. Among the goals of the restoration was the reinforcement of the building's foundations, the restoration of its architectural elements, and upgrades to its infrastructure.<a href="#cite_note-97">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-98">[95]</a> The Bab al-Muzayinīn (Gate of the Barbers), formerly one of the main public entrances to the mosque, has been made less accessible as a result of the restoration project.<a href="#cite_note-99">[96]</a> In 2020, representatives from the mosque spoke out against sexual violence in Egypt, prompted by the social media campaign instigated by student <a href="/wiki/Nadeen_Ashraf" title="Nadeen Ashraf">Nadeen Ashraf</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEl_Habachi2020-100">[97]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Architecture">Architecture</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Architecture">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foundation_and_structural_evolution_under_Fatimids">Foundation and structural evolution under Fatimids</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Foundation and structural evolution under Fatimids">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al-Azhar_Interior.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A large room filled with rows of cylindrical columns on top of square bases. The columns support arches which are pierced by square beams going the length of the room in both directions. Hanging from the beams are lamps, and the room's floor is covered with a red carpet with a repeated beige arched doorway shaped design on it. Exterior light enters from right of the room." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Al-Azhar_Interior.jpg/220px-Al-Azhar_Interior.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Al-Azhar_Interior.jpg/330px-Al-Azhar_Interior.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Al-Azhar_Interior.jpg/440px-Al-Azhar_Interior.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2642" data-file-height="2300" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hypostyle" title="Hypostyle">Hypostyle</a> prayer hall with columns used from various periods in Egyptian history</figcaption></figure> The original structure of the mosque was 280 feet (85 m) in length and 227 feet (69 m) wide,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge19615-9">[7]</a> and was made up of three <a href="/wiki/Arcade_(architecture)" title="Arcade (architecture)">arcades</a> situated around a courtyard.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199258-19">[16]</a> To the southeast of the courtyard was the original prayer hall, built as a <a href="/wiki/Mosque#Styles" title="Mosque">hypostyle hall</a>, five aisles deep, though with its <a href="/wiki/Qibla" title="Qibla">qibla</a> wall slightly off the correct angle.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647–50-101">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoltLambtonLewis1977713-102">[99]</a> The marble columns supporting the four arcades that made up the prayer hall were reused from sites extant at different times in <a href="/wiki/History_of_Egypt" title="History of Egypt">Egyptian history</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Pharaonic times</a> through <a href="/wiki/Egypt_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt (Roman province)">Roman rule</a> to <a href="/wiki/Copts" title="Copts">Coptic dominance</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647–48-103">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERivoiraRushforth1918154-104">[101]</a> The different heights of the columns were made level by using bases of varying thickness.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647–48-103">[100]</a> The stucco exterior shows influences from <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_architecture" title="Abbasid architecture">Abbasid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coptic_architecture" title="Coptic architecture">Coptic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_architecture" title="Byzantine architecture">Byzantine</a> architecture.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199259-105">[102]</a> Ultimately a total of three domes were built, a common trait among early north African mosques, although none of them have survived Al-Azhar's many renovations.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199259-105">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetersen200245-106">[103]</a> The historian <a href="/wiki/Al-Maqrizi" title="Al-Maqrizi">al-Maqrizi</a> recorded that in the original dome al-Siqilli inscribed the following:<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate; according to the command for its building from the servant of Allah, His governor abu Tamim Ma'ad, the Imam al-Mu‘izz li-Dīn Allāh, Amir al-Mu'minin, for whom and his illustrious forefathers and his sons may there be the blessings of Allah: By the hand of his servant Jawhar, the Secretary, the Ṣiqillī in the year 360.</blockquote> Gawhar included the honorific <a href="/wiki/Amir_al-Mu%27minin" title="Amir al-Mu'minin">Amir al-Mu'minin</a>, Commander of the Faithful, as the Caliphs title and also included his nickname "the Secretary" which he had earned serving as a secretary prior to becoming a general.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge19613–4-107">[104]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo,_moschea_di_El-Azhar_(12).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%2812%29.jpg/220px-Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%2812%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%2812%29.jpg/330px-Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%2812%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%2812%29.jpg/440px-Flickr_-_Gaspa_-_Cairo%2C_moschea_di_El-Azhar_%2812%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1361" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid</a> <a href="/wiki/Mihrab" title="Mihrab">mihrab</a> of the mosque. This area has been modified and restored many times, but the <a href="/wiki/Stucco" title="Stucco">stucco</a> patterns in the half-dome (<a href="/wiki/Conch" title="Conch">conch</a>) of the niche are believed to be original.</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/K._A._C._Creswell" title="K. A. C. Creswell">K. A. C. Creswell</a> wrote that the original structure certainly had one dome, and likely a second for symmetry.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195236-8">[6]</a> The original <a href="/wiki/Mihrab" title="Mihrab">mihrab</a>, uncovered in 1933, has a semi-dome above it with a marble column on either side.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199664-108">[105]</a> Intricate stucco decorations were a prominent feature of the mosque, with the mihrab and the walls ornately decorated.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200653-15">[12]</a> The mihrab had two sets of verses from the <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> inscribed in the <a href="/wiki/Conch_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conch (architecture)">conch</a>, which is still intact. The first set of verses are the three that open <a href="/wiki/Al-Mu%E2%80%99minoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Mu’minoon">al-Mu’minoon</a>:<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><blockquote><big><div dir="rtl" style="text-align:right">قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ – الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ خَاشِعُونَ – وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنِ اللَّغْوِ مُعْرِضُونَ</div></big>Successful indeed are the believers – who are humble in their prayers – and who avoid vain talk</blockquote></div>The next inscription is made up of verses 162 and 163 of <a href="/wiki/Al-An%27am" title="Al-An'am">al-An'am</a>:<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><blockquote><big><div dir="rtl" style="text-align:right">قُلْ إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ – لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَلِكَ أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَا أَوَّلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ</div></big>Say: Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds – No associate has He; and this am I commanded, and I am the first of those who submit.</blockquote></div>These inscriptions are the only surviving piece of decoration that has been definitively traced to the Fatimids.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199664-108">[105]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Interior_wall_Azhar.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Five keel shaped arches (and part of a sixth) are visible. The arches are supported by cylindrical columns. Above each arch is a large circular inscribed stucco decoration, and above each column is a large inscribed stucco decoration that mirrors the shape of arch and columns. Behind the row of columns is a walkway, and then a wall with entrances the shape and size of the arches and columns." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Interior_wall_Azhar.JPG/220px-Interior_wall_Azhar.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Interior_wall_Azhar.JPG/330px-Interior_wall_Azhar.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Interior_wall_Azhar.JPG/440px-Interior_wall_Azhar.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Keel shaped arches along the courtyard wall with stucco ornaments inscribed</figcaption></figure> The marble paved central courtyard was added between 1009 and 1010.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbdo200245-109">[106]</a> The arcades that surround the courtyard have keel shaped arches with stucco inscriptions. The arches were built during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Al-Hafiz" title="Al-Hafiz">al-Hafiz li-Din Allah</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647-110">[107]</a> The stucco ornaments also date to his rule and were redone in 1891.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647-110">[107]</a> Two types of ornaments are used. The first appears above the center of the arch and consists of a sunken roundel and twenty-four lobes. A circular band of vegetal motifs was added in 1893. The second ornament used, which alternates with the first appearing in between each arch, consists of shallow niches below a fluted hood. The hood rests on <a href="/wiki/Engaged_column" title="Engaged column">engaged columns</a> which are surrounded by band of Qu'ranic writing in <a href="/wiki/Kufic" title="Kufic">Kufic script</a>. The Qu'ranic script was added after the rule of al-Hafiz but during the Fatimid period.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647-110">[107]</a> The walls are topped by a star shaped band with tiered triangular <a href="/wiki/Crenellation" class="mw-redirect" title="Crenellation">crenellations</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647-110">[107]</a> The southeastern arcade of the courtyard contains the main entrance to the prayer hall. A Persian framing gate, in which the central arch of the arcade is further in with a higher rectangular pattern above it, opens into the prayer hall.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647-110">[107]</a> A new wooden door was installed during the reign of al-Hakim in 1009.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge196119–22-111">[108]</a> In 1125, al-Amir installed a new wooden mihrab. An additional dome was constructed during the reign of al-Hafiz li-Din Allah. He additionally ordered the creation of a fourth arcade around the courtyard and had a porch built on the western end of the sahn.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199259-105">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge196131-112">[109]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mamluk_additions">Mamluk additions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Mamluk additions">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cairo_al-Azhar_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="An ornate carved stone minaret, with a carved stone railing around balconies at its center and near its top. The tip of the minaret is a large bulb-shaped stone decoration with a small bulb-shaped metal finial. Behind the minaret part of the top of a dome is visible." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Cairo_al-Azhar_1.jpg/220px-Cairo_al-Azhar_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="350" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Cairo_al-Azhar_1.jpg/330px-Cairo_al-Azhar_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Cairo_al-Azhar_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="377" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Minaret above the Madrassa al-Aqbughawiyya. Originally built during Mamluk rule as part of a stand-alone mosque, the minaret was remodeled by Katkhuda during the Ottoman period.</figcaption></figure> The Fatimid dynasty was succeeded by the rule of Saladin and his <a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubid dynasty</a>. Initially appointed <a href="/wiki/Vizier" title="Vizier">vizier</a> by the last Fatimid Caliph <a href="/wiki/Al-%27%C4%80%E1%B8%8Did" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-'Āḍid">Al-'Āḍid</a> (who incorrectly thought he could be easily manipulated), Saladin consolidated power in Egypt, allying that country with the Sunni <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a> in Baghdad.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShillington2005438-113">[110]</a> Distrusting al-Azhar for its Shi'a history, the mosque lost prestige during his rule.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">[19]</a> However, the succeeding Mamluk dynasty made restorations and additions to the mosque, overseeing a rapid expansion of its educational programs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998312-114">[111]</a> Among the restorations was a modification of the mihrab, with the installation of a polychrome marble facing.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647–48-103">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Madrasa_al-Taybarsiyya">Madrasa al-Taybarsiyya</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Madrasa al-Taybarsiyya">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Madrasa_Taybarsiya_mihrab.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Madrasa_Taybarsiya_mihrab.jpg/220px-Madrasa_Taybarsiya_mihrab.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Madrasa_Taybarsiya_mihrab.jpg/330px-Madrasa_Taybarsiya_mihrab.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Madrasa_Taybarsiya_mihrab.jpg/440px-Madrasa_Taybarsiya_mihrab.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2420" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Mihrab" title="Mihrab">mihrab</a> of the Madrasa al-Taybarsiyya</figcaption></figure> The Madrasa al-Taybarsiyya, which contains the tomb of <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">Amir</a> Taybars, was built in 1309.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200656-115">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoltLambtonLewis1977731-116">[113]</a> Originally intended to function as a complementary mosque to al-Azhar it has since been integrated with the rest of the mosque.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199657-30">[27]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sh%C4%81fi%E2%80%98%C4%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Shāfi‘ī">Shāfi‘ī</a> madh'hab were studied in this madrasa, though it now is used to hold manuscripts from the library. The only surviving piece from the original is the qibla wall and its polychrome mihrab.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200656-115">[112]</a> Al-Maqrizi reported that the madrasa was used only for studying the Shāfi‘ī while the historian <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Duqmaq" title="Ibn Duqmaq">Ibn Duqmaq</a> reported that one of the <a href="/wiki/Liwan" title="Liwan">liwans</a> in the madrasa was reserved for Shāfi‘ī teachings while the other was for Maliki teachings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell1959253-117">[114]</a> The madrasa was completely rebuilt by Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda, leaving only the southeastern wall and its mihrab untouched. The mihrab was described by <a href="/wiki/K._A._C._Creswell" title="K. A. C. Creswell">K. A. C. Creswell</a> as being "one of the finest in Cairo".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell1959253-117">[114]</a> The niche of the mihrab is 1.13 meters (3.7 ft) wide and 76 centimeters (30 in) deep. On each side of the niche stands a 2.78 meters (9.1 ft) high porphyry column. Above the columns are impost blocks decorated with colored geometrical designs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell1959253-117">[114]</a> The semi-dome at the top of the mihrab is set within an outer arch. Surrounding this arch is a molding that forms a rectangular outer frame. This is the first mihrab in Egypt to have this type of frame.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell1959253–254-118">[115]</a> Inside the frame are glass mosaics depicting <a href="/wiki/Pomegranate_Tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Pomegranate Tree">pomegranate trees</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018204-21">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Madrasa_and_mausoleum_of_Aqbugha">Madrasa and mausoleum of Aqbugha</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Madrasa and mausoleum of Aqbugha">edit</a>]</div> A dome and minaret cover the Madrasa al-Aqbughawiyya, which contains the tomb of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Amir_Aqbugha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amir Aqbugha (page does not exist)">Amir Aqbugha</a>, which was built in 1339.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200656-115">[112]</a> Intended by its founder, another Mamluk <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">amir</a> called Sayf al-Din Aqbugha 'Abd al-Wahid, to be a stand-alone mosque and school, the madrasa has since become integrated with the rest of the mosque.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199646-119">[116]</a> It includes both a small tomb chamber and a larger hall, both with mihrabs. The entrance, qibla wall, and the mihrabs with glass mosaics are all original, while the pointed dome was rebuilt in the Ottoman period.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200656-115">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018203-204-120">[117]</a> Parts of the facade were remodeled by Khedive Tewfik in 1888.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647-110">[107]</a> The top of the minaret was remodelled by Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda so as to have a pointed top like the other Ottoman-style minarets he built around the entrances of the mosque, but at some point after 1932 the top was once again refashioned to end with a Mamluk-style finial which we see today.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199667-121">[118]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Madrasa_Gawhariyya">Madrasa Gawhariyya</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Madrasa Gawhariyya">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Madrasa_and_dome_of_Gawhar_al-Azhar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Madrasa_and_dome_of_Gawhar_al-Azhar.jpg/220px-Madrasa_and_dome_of_Gawhar_al-Azhar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Madrasa_and_dome_of_Gawhar_al-Azhar.jpg/330px-Madrasa_and_dome_of_Gawhar_al-Azhar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Madrasa_and_dome_of_Gawhar_al-Azhar.jpg/440px-Madrasa_and_dome_of_Gawhar_al-Azhar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1520" data-file-height="1482" /></a><figcaption>The dome of the tomb and madrasa of Gawhar al-Qanaqba'i (at the northeastern corner of the mosque)</figcaption></figure> Built in 1440,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoltLambtonLewis1977731-116">[113]</a> the Madrasa Gawhariyya contains the tomb of Gawhar al-Qanaqba'i, a <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Eunuch" title="Eunuch">eunuch</a> who became treasurer to the sultan.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200656-115">[112]</a> The floor of the madrasa is marble, the walls lined with cupboards, decoratively inlaid with ebony, ivory, and <a href="/wiki/Nacre" title="Nacre">nacre</a>. The tomb chamber is covered by small stone dome whose exterior is carved with an arabesque pattern, making it one for the earliest domes in Cairo with this type of decoration (later refined in the dome of <a href="/wiki/Complex_of_Sultan_al-Ashraf_Qaytbay" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay">Qaytay's mausoleum</a> in the <a href="/wiki/City_of_the_Dead_(Cairo)" title="City of the Dead (Cairo)">Northern Cemetery</a>).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018205-206-122">[119]</a> The structure was restored between 1980 and 1982.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018205-206-122">[119]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Minaret_of_Qaytbay">Minaret of Qaytbay</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Minaret of Qaytbay">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Minaret_of_Qaytbay.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="An ornate carved stone minaret, with a carved stone railing around three balconies, the first below its center, the second two thirds the way up, and the third near its top. The tip of the minaret is a large bulb-shaped stone decoration with a small bulb-shaped metal finial. Behind the minaret most of a dome is visible." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Minaret_of_Qaytbay.jpg/220px-Minaret_of_Qaytbay.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Minaret_of_Qaytbay.jpg/330px-Minaret_of_Qaytbay.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Minaret_of_Qaytbay.jpg/440px-Minaret_of_Qaytbay.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1321" data-file-height="1758" /></a><figcaption>Minaret of Qaytbay</figcaption></figure> Built in 1483<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200655-123">[120]</a> or in 1495,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647-110">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018206-124">[121]</a> it has a square base, a transitional segment leading into an octagonal shaft, then a 10-sided polygon shaft, followed by a cylindrical shaft that consists of 8 brick pillars, each two adjoined by bricks in between. The Minaret of Qaytbay also has three balconies, supported by <a href="/wiki/Muqarnas" title="Muqarnas">muqarnas</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200655-123">[120]</a> a form of stalactite vaulting which provide a smooth transition from a flat surface to a curved one<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetersen2002208-125">[122]</a> (first recorded to have been used in Egypt in 1085),<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom198821-126">[123]</a> that adorn the minaret. The first shaft is octagonal is decorated with keel-arched panels on each side, with a cluster of three columns separating each panel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200655-123">[120]</a> Above this shaft is the second octagonal shaft which is separated from the first by a balcony and decorated with plaiting.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200655-123">[120]</a> A second balcony separates this shaft with the final cylindrical shaft, decorated with four arches. Above this is the third balcony, crowned by the <a href="/wiki/Finial" title="Finial">finial</a> top of the minaret.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200655-123">[120]</a> The minaret is believed to have been built in the area of an earlier, Fatimid-era brick minaret that had itself been rebuilt several times. Contemporary accounts suggest that the Fatimid minaret had defects in its construction and needed to be rebuilt several times,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199651-127">[124]</a> including once under the direction of Sadr al-Din al-Adhra'i al-Dimashqi al-Hanafi, the qadi al-qudat (Chief Justice of the Highest Court) during the rule of Sultan Baibars.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199650-128">[125]</a> Recorded to have been rebuilt again under Barquq in 1397, the minaret began to lean at a dangerous angle and was rebuilt in 1414 by Taj al-Din al-Shawbaki, the <a href="/wiki/Wali" title="Wali">walī</a> and <a href="/wiki/Muhtasib" title="Muhtasib">muhtasib</a> of Cairo, and again in 1432. The Qaytbay minaret was built in its place as part of a reconstruction of the entrance to the mosque.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199651-127">[124]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Gate_of_Qaytbay">Gate of Qaytbay</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Gate of Qaytbay">edit</a>]</div> Directly across the courtyard from the entrance from the Bab al-Muzayinīn is the Gate of Qaytbay.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199646-119">[116]</a> It is a refined example of the late <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_architecture" title="Mamluk architecture">Mamuk architectural</a> and decorative style. Built in 1495, this gate leads to the court of the prayer hall.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647–48-103">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Minaret_of_al-Ghuri">Minaret of al-Ghuri</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Minaret of al-Ghuri">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al-Ghuri_Minaret_in_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="An ornate carved stone octagonal minaret, with a carved stone railing around balconies at its center and near its top. Above the second balcony the minaret splits into two rectangular shafts, each tipped by railing and a bulb-shaped finial." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Al-Ghuri_Minaret_in_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/220px-Al-Ghuri_Minaret_in_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Al-Ghuri_Minaret_in_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/330px-Al-Ghuri_Minaret_in_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Al-Ghuri_Minaret_in_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg/440px-Al-Ghuri_Minaret_in_Al-Azhar_Mosque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1283" data-file-height="1710" /></a><figcaption>Double finial minaret of <a href="/wiki/Al-Ashraf_Qansuh_al-Ghuri" title="Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri">Qansuh al-Ghuri</a></figcaption></figure> The double finial minaret was built in 1509 by Qansuh al-Ghuri.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647–48-103">[100]</a> Sitting on a square base, the first shaft is octagonal, and four sides have a decorative keel arch, separated from the adjacent sides with two columns.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200655-123">[120]</a> The second shaft, a 12-sided polygon separated from the first by fretted balconies supported by muqarnas, is decorated with blue <a href="/wiki/Faience" title="Faience">faience</a>. A balcony separates the third level from the second shaft. The third level is made up of two rectangular shafts with horseshoe arches on each side of both shafts. Atop each of these two shafts rests a finial atop two identical onion shaped bulbs, with a balcony separating the finials from the shafts.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200655-123">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ottoman_renovations_and_additions">Ottoman renovations and additions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Ottoman renovations and additions">edit</a>]</div> Several additions and restorations were made during Ottoman reign in Egypt, many of which were completed under the direction of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda who nearly doubled the size of the mosque.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200654-129">[126]</a> Three gates were added by Katkhuda, the Bab al-Muzayinīn (see below), which became the main entrance to the mosque, the Bab al-Shurba (the Soup Gate), and the Bab al-Sa'ayida (the Gate of the <a href="/wiki/Sa%27idi_people" title="Sa'idi people">Sa'idis</a>).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199649–50-38">[35]</a> To each gate he added a pointed Ottoman-style minaret, of which one was later demolished during the creation of al-Azhar Street. For the Bab al-Muzayinīn, which was adjacent to the Madrasa al-Aqbughiyya, he remodelled the top of Aqbugha's minaret to make it resemble the other Ottoman minarets (though the top was later rebuilt again in a Mamluk style during the 20th century).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199660–61,_62,_67-130">[127]</a> Several riwaqs were added, including one for the blind students of al-Azhar, as well as refurbished during the Ottoman period.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199660–61-39">[36]</a> Katkhuda also added an additional prayer hall south of the original Fatimid hall, with an additional mihrab, doubling the total prayer area.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199660–61-39">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200654-129">[126]</a> His overall work reintegrated the mosque's disparate elements in a relatively unified whole.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199660–61-39">[36]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Bab_al-Muzayinīn">Bab al-Muzayinīn</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Bab al-Muzayinīn">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bab_al-Muzaynin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Two large arches recessed into a wall are visible, with entrance-ways at their bottom. Above the arches the wall is ornately decorated with carvings and geometric designs. Parts of the decorations are colored red, blue and gold. The arches and decorations are surmounted and flanked by large, closely set rectangular blocks." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Bab_al-Muzaynin.jpg/220px-Bab_al-Muzaynin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Bab_al-Muzaynin.jpg/330px-Bab_al-Muzaynin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Bab_al-Muzaynin.jpg/440px-Bab_al-Muzaynin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3504" data-file-height="2336" /></a><figcaption>Bab al-Muzayinīn (Gate of the Barbers)</figcaption></figure> The Bab al-Muzayinīn ("Gate of the Barbers", Arabic: باب المزينين) was built in 1753.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1962185-131">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGottheil1907503-132">[129]</a> Credited to Katkhuda the gate has two doors, each surrounded by recessed arches. Two molded semi-circular arches with tympanums decorated with trefoils stand above the doors. Above the arches is a frieze with panels of cypress trees, a common trait of Ottoman work.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199646-119">[116]</a> A free-standing minaret, built by Katkhuda, originally stood outside the gate. The minaret was demolished prior to the opening of al-Azhar street by <a href="/wiki/Tewfik_Pasha" title="Tewfik Pasha">Tewfik Pasha</a> during modernization efforts which took place throughout Cairo.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199662-61">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Current_layout_and_structure">Current layout and structure</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Current layout and structure">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al-Azhar_Mihrab.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A niche made of multiple types of decorative stone is embedded in a wall, facing a red carpeted area. The niche is flanked by stone columns, and surmounted by a stone arch. The wall at the back of the niche is a semi-circular curve, with a geometric design covering most of it. The wall beside the niche also has patterned stone on it. To the right is a dark wooden structure, a narrow staircase with a lattice door at the foot of it, and lattice railings leading to a seat topped by a square wooden canopy." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Al-Azhar_Mihrab.jpg/220px-Al-Azhar_Mihrab.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Al-Azhar_Mihrab.jpg/330px-Al-Azhar_Mihrab.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Al-Azhar_Mihrab.jpg/440px-Al-Azhar_Mihrab.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1361" /></a><figcaption>Current mihrab and <a href="/wiki/Minbar" title="Minbar">minbar</a> in Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda's extension of the prayer hall</figcaption></figure> The present main entrance to the mosque is the Bab al-Muzayinīn, which opens into the white marble-paved courtyard at the opposite end of the main prayer hall.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199646-119">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeattie2005103-133">[130]</a> To the northeast of the Bab al-Muzayinīn, the courtyard is flanked by the façade of the Madrasa al-Aqbughawiyya; the southwestern end of the courtyard leads to the Madrasa al-Taybarsiyya.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199657-30">[27]</a> Directly across the courtyard from the entrance to the Bab al-Muzayinīn is the Bab al-Gindi (Gate of Qaytbay), built in 1495, above which stands the minaret of Qaytbay.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199646-119">[116]</a> Through this gate lies the courtyard of the prayer hall.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647–48-103">[100]</a> The mihrab has recently been changed to a plain marble facing with gold patterns, replacing some of the Mamluk marble facing, but the stucco carvings in the semi-dome are likely from the Fatimid era.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199647–48-103">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bab_al-Futuh" title="Bab al-Futuh">Bab al-Futuh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_medieval_Arabic_and_Western_European_domes" title="History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes">History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Egypt" title="Islam in Egypt">Islam in Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabil-Kuttab_of_Katkhuda" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabil-Kuttab of Katkhuda">Sabil-Kuttab of Katkhuda</a></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Between 972 and 1171 CE, al-Azhar followed the <a href="/wiki/Ismailism" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismailism">Ismaili</a> branch of <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia Islam</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> The <a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Amr_ibn_al-As" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosque of Amr ibn al-As">Mosque of Amr ibn al-As</a> is the oldest mosque in modern urban Cairo (as well as the oldest mosque in Africa), built in 642 CE. However, the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, as well as several others in modern-day Cairo that are older than al-Azhar, was built in the city of <a href="/wiki/Fustat" title="Fustat">Fustat</a> which the modern-city of Cairo later incorporated. </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> One of the main identifying characteristics of Egyptian Arabic is the hard g in place of j in the pronunciation of the letter <a href="/wiki/Gimel#Arabic_ǧīm" title="Gimel">ǧīm</a>. This modification happened in the 19th and 20th centuries.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIzre'elRaz1996153-10">[8]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Azhar_Mosque&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Footnotes">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195243-2"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell195243_2-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCreswell1952">Creswell 1952</a>, p. 43. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERabbat199653-4">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERabbat199653_4-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERabbat199653_4-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERabbat199653_4-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFRabbat1996">Rabbat 1996</a>, p. 53. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom2007104-5"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBloom2007104_5-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBloom2007">Bloom 2007</a>, p. 104. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlair2000507-6"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlair2000507_6-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBlair2000">Blair 2000</a>, p. 507. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHitti1973114-7"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHitti1973114_7-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHitti1973">Hitti 1973</a>, p. 114. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195236-8">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell195236_8-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell195236_8-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell195236_8-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell195236_8-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFCreswell1952">Creswell 1952</a>, p. 36. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge19615-9">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodge19615_9-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodge19615_9-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFDodge1961">Dodge 1961</a>, p. 5. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEIzre'elRaz1996153-10"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIzre'elRaz1996153_10-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFIzre'elRaz1996">Izre'el & Raz 1996</a>, p. 153. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi19989-12">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi19989_12-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi19989_12-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFSummerfieldDevineLevi1998">Summerfield, Devine & Levi 1998</a>, p. 9. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998139-13">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998139_13-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998139_13-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPetryDaly1998139_13-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFPetryDaly1998">Petry & Daly 1998</a>, p. 139. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200652-14">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYeomans200652_14-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYeomans200652_14-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFYeomans2006">Yeomans 2006</a>, p. 52. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYeomans200653-15">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYeomans200653_15-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYeomans200653_15-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFYeomans2006">Yeomans 2006</a>, p. 53. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaftary199896-16"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaftary199896_16-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDaftary1998">Daftary 1998</a>, p. 96. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodge19616–7-17"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodge19616–7_17-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDodge1961">Dodge 1961</a>, pp. 6–7. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaftary199895-18"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaftary199895_18-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDaftary1998">Daftary 1998</a>, p. 95. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199258-19">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199258_19-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBehrens-Abouseif199258_19-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFBehrens-Abouseif1992">Behrens-Abouseif 1992</a>, p. 58. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell195237-20">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell195237_20-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell195237_20-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell195237_20-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFCreswell1952">Creswell 1952</a>, p. 37. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018204-21">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018204_21-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams2018204_21-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliams2018">Williams 2018</a>, p. 204. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810-22">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810_22-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810_22-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810_22-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810_22-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810_22-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810_22-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810_22-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESummerfieldDevineLevi199810_22-7">h</a> <a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Abdullah_al-Shubrawi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abdullah al-Shubrawi (page does not exist)">Abdullah al-Shubrawi</a> (1724–1758)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_al-Hiffnawi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muhammad al-Hiffnawi (page does not exist)">Muhammad al-Hiffnawi</a> (1758–1767)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abd_al-Rauf_al-Sajini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abd al-Rauf al-Sajini (page does not exist)">Abd al-Rauf al-Sajini</a> (1767–1769)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_al-Damanhuri&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ahmed al-Damanhuri (page does not exist)">Ahmed al-Damanhuri</a> (1769–1778)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_al-Arusi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ahmed al-Arusi (page does not exist)">Ahmed al-Arusi</a> (1778–1793)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_al-Sharqawi" title="Abdullah al-Sharqawi">Abdullah al-Sharqawi</a> (1793–1812)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Muhammed_al-Shanawani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muhammed al-Shanawani (page does not exist)">Muhammed al-Shanawani</a> (1812–1818)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Muhammed_al-Arusi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muhammed al-Arusi (page does not exist)">Muhammed al-Arusi</a> (1818–1829)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_al-Damhuji&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ahmed al-Damhuji (page does not exist)">Ahmed al-Damhuji</a> (1829–1830)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hasan_al-Attar" title="Hasan al-Attar">Hasan al-Attar</a> (1830–1834)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hasan_al-Quwaysini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hasan al-Quwaysini (page does not exist)">Hasan al-Quwaysini</a> (1834–1838)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_al-Sa%27im_al-Safti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ahmed al-Sa'im al-Safti (page does not exist)">Ahmed al-Sa'im al-Safti</a> (1838–1847)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_al-Bajuri" title="Ibrahim al-Bajuri">Ibrahim al-Bajuri</a> (1847–1864)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mustafa_al-Arusi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mustafa al-Arusi (page does not exist)">Mustafa al-Arusi</a> (1864–1870)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_al-Mahdi_(grand_imam)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muhammad al-Mahdi (grand imam) (page does not exist)">Muhammad al-Mahdi</a> (1870–1881)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shams_al-Din_Muhammad_al-Imbabi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Imbabi (page does not exist)">Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Imbabi</a> (1881–1882)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_al-Mahdi_(grand_imam)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muhammad al-Mahdi (grand imam) (page does not exist)">Muhammad al-Mahdi</a> (1882–1886)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shams_al-Din_Muhammad_al-Imbabi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Imbabi (page does not exist)">Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Imbabi</a> (1886–1895)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hassunah_al-Nawawi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hassunah al-Nawawi (page does not exist)">Hassunah al-Nawawi</a> (1895–1899)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abd_al-Rahman_al-Qutb_al-Nawawi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abd al-Rahman al-Qutb al-Nawawi (page does not exist)">Abd al-Rahman al-Qutb al-Nawawi</a> (1899–1899)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salim_al-Bishri" title="Salim al-Bishri">Salim al-Bishri</a> (1899–1903)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ali_al-Biblawi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ali al-Biblawi (page does not exist)">Ali al-Biblawi</a> (1903–1905)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abd_al-Rahman_al-Shirbini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abd al-Rahman al-Shirbini (page does not exist)">Abd al-Rahman al-Shirbini</a> (1905–1907)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hassanuh_al-Nawawi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hassanuh al-Nawawi (page does not exist)">Hassanuh al-Nawawi</a> (1907–1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salim_al-Bishri" title="Salim al-Bishri">Salim al-Bishri</a> (1909–1917)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Jizawi" title="Muhammad al-Jizawi">Muhammad al-Jizawi</a> (1917–1927)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mustafa_al-Maraghi" title="Mustafa al-Maraghi">Mustafa al-Maraghi</a> (1927–1929)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_al-Zawahiri_(grand_imam)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muhammad al-Zawahiri (grand imam) (page does not exist)">Muhammad al-Zawahiri</a> (1929–1935)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mustafa_al-Maraghi" title="Mustafa al-Maraghi">Mustafa al-Maraghi</a> (1935–1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mustafa_%27Abd_al-Raziq" class="mw-redirect" title="Mustafa 'Abd al-Raziq">Mustafa 'Abd al-Raziq</a> (1945–1947)</li> <li><a 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Mosque</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Al-Azhar Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Burdayni_Mosque" title="Al-Burdayni Mosque">Al-Burdayni Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Fath_Mosque" title="Al-Fath Mosque">Al-Fath Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Hakim_Mosque" title="Al-Hakim Mosque">Al-Hakim Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Hussein_Mosque" title="Al-Hussein Mosque">Al-Hussein Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Mahmoudia_Mosque" title="Al-Mahmoudia Mosque">Al-Mahmoudia Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Nasir_Muhammad_Mosque" title="Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque">Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Nour_Mosque_(Cairo)" title="Al-Nour Mosque (Cairo)">Al-Nour Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Rahman_al-Rahim_Mosque" title="Al-Rahman al-Rahim Mosque">Al-Rahman al-Rahim Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Rifa%27i_Mosque" title="Al-Rifa'i Mosque">Al-Rifa'i Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Salih_Tala%27i_Mosque" title="Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque">Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Sayeda_Nafeesah_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque">Al-Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayyidah_Zainab_Mosque,_Cairo" title="Sayyidah Zainab Mosque, Cairo">Al-Sayyidah Zainab Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amir_Jamal_al-Din_al-Ustadar_Mosque" title="Amir Jamal al-Din al-Ustadar Mosque">Amir Jamal al-Din al-Ustadar Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amir_Qijmas_al-Ishaqi_Mosque" title="Amir Qijmas al-Ishaqi Mosque">Amir Qijmas al-Ishaqi Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Amr_ibn_al-As" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosque of Amr ibn al-As">Mosque of Amr ibn al-As</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aqmar_Mosque" title="Aqmar Mosque">Aqmar Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aqsunqur_Mosque" title="Aqsunqur Mosque">Aqsunqur Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demerdash_Mosque" title="Demerdash Mosque">Demerdash Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%99s_Islamic_Cultural_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt’s Islamic Cultural Center">Egypt’s Islamic Cultural Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser_Mosque" title="Gamal Abdel Nasser Mosque">Gamal Abdel Nasser Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Ibn_Tulun" title="Mosque of Ibn Tulun">Ibn Tulun Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jami_al-Qarafa_Mosque" title="Jami al-Qarafa Mosque">Jami al-Qarafa Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juyushi_Mosque" title="Juyushi Mosque">Juyushi Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khanqah_of_Faraj_ibn_Barquq" title="Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq">Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khanqah-Mausoleum_of_Sultan_Barsbay" title="Khanqah-Mausoleum of Sultan Barsbay">Khanqah-Mausoleum of Sultan Barsbay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amir_Khayrbak_Funerary_Complex" title="Amir Khayrbak Funerary Complex">Khayrbak Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lulua_Mosque" title="Lulua Mosque">Lulua Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahmud_al-Kurdi_Mosque" title="Mahmud al-Kurdi Mosque">Mahmud al-Kurdi Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasa_of_Sarghatmish" title="Madrasa of Sarghatmish">Mosque of Amir al-Sayf Sarghatmish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_and_Khanqah_of_Shaykhu" title="Mosque and Khanqah of Shaykhu">Mosque and Khanqah of Shaykhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Abu_al-Dhahab" title="Mosque of Abu al-Dhahab">Mosque of Abu al-Dhahab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_al-Zahir_Baybars" title="Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars">Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Amir_al-Maridani" title="Mosque of Amir al-Maridani">Mosque of Amir al-Maridani‎</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Aslam_al-Silahdar" title="Mosque of Aslam al-Silahdar">Mosque of Aslam al-Silahdar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Khushqadam_el-Ahmadi" title="Mosque of Khushqadam el-Ahmadi">Mosque of Khushqadam el-Ahmadi</a></li> <li><a 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title="Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq">Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque-Madrasa_of_Sultan_Hasan" title="Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan">Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque-Sabil_of_Sulayman_Agha_al-Silahdar" title="Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar">Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qalawun_complex" title="Qalawun complex">Qalawun Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complex_of_Sultan_al-Ashraf_Qaytbay" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay">Qaytbay Mosque‎</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabaa_al-Adawiya_Mosque" title="Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque">Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayeda_Aisha_Mosque" title="Sayeda Aisha Mosque">Sayeda Aisha Mosque‎</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulayman_Pasha_Mosque" title="Sulayman Pasha Mosque">Sulayman Pasha Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultan_al-Ghuri_Complex" title="Sultan al-Ghuri Complex">Sultan al-Ghuri Complex</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#99CC99;;width:1%">Other places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%99s_Islamic_Cultural_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt’s Islamic Cultural Center">Egypt’s Islamic Cultural Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Fattah_al-Aleem_Mosque" title="Al-Fattah al-Aleem Mosque">Al-Fattah al-Aleem Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Haggag_Mosque" title="Abu Haggag Mosque">Abu Haggag Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_al-Badawi_Mosque" title="Ahmad al-Badawi Mosque">Ahmad al-Badawi Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El-Tabia_Mosque" title="El-Tabia Mosque">El-Tabia Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_El_Desouki_Mosque" title="Ibrahim El Desouki Mosque">Ibrahim El Desouki Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidi_Arif_Mosque" title="Sidi Arif Mosque">Sidi Arif Mosque</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="background:#99CC99;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Mosques_in_Egypt" title="Category:Mosques in Egypt">Category</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Egypt" title="Islam in Egypt">Islam in Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Mosques_by_country" title="Category:Mosques by country">Mosques by country</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Islamic_Cairo" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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al-Jukandar">Mosque of Almalik al-Jukandar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasa_of_Tatar_al-Hijaziya" title="Madrasa of Tatar al-Hijaziya">Madrasa of Tatar al-Hijaziya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Salih_Tala%27i_Mosque" title="Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque">Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aqmar_Mosque" title="Aqmar Mosque">Aqmar Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Virgin_Mary_(Haret_Zuweila)" title="Church of the Virgin Mary (Haret Zuweila)">Church of the Virgin Mary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emir_Qurqumas_Complex" title="Emir Qurqumas Complex">Complex of Amir Qurqumas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complex_of_Sultan_al-Ashraf_Qaytbay" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay">Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Al-Ghuri_Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Al-Ghuri Complex">Complex of Sultan al-Ghuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qalawun_complex" title="Qalawun complex">Complex of Sultan Qalawun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khanqah_of_Baybars_II" title="Khanqah of Baybars II">Khanqah of Baybars II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khanqah_of_Faraj_ibn_Barquq" title="Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq">Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khanqah-Mausoleum_of_Sultan_Barsbay" title="Khanqah-Mausoleum of Sultan Barsbay">Khanqah-Mausoleum of Sultan Barsbay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasa_of_al-Nasir_Muhammad" title="Madrasa of al-Nasir Muhammad">Madrasa of al-Nasir Muhammad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salihiyya_Madrasa" title="Salihiyya Madrasa">Madrasa-Mausoleum of as-Salih Najm ad-Din Ayyub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Abu_al-Dhahab" title="Mosque of Abu al-Dhahab">Mosque of Abu al-Dhahab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amir_Jamal_al-Din_al-Ustadar_Mosque" title="Amir Jamal al-Din al-Ustadar Mosque">Mosque of Amir Jamal al-Din al-Ustadar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Sultan_al-Muayyad" title="Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad">Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Ashraf_Mosque" title="Al-Ashraf Mosque">Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque-Madrasa_of_Sultan_Barquq" title="Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq">Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque-Sabil_of_Sulayman_Agha_al-Silahdar" title="Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar">Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Azhar_Park" title="Al-Azhar Park">Al-Azhar Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayt_al-Suhaymi" title="Bayt al-Suhaymi">Bayt al-Suhaymi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beshtak_Palace" title="Beshtak Palace">Beshtak Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammam_of_Sultan_Inal" title="Hammam of Sultan Inal">Hammam of Sultan Inal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_el-Khalili" title="Khan el-Khalili">Khan el-Khalili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabil-Kuttab_of_Katkhuda" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabil-Kuttab of Katkhuda">Sabil-Kuttab of Katkhuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikala_and_Sabil-Kuttab_of_Sultan_Qaytbay" title="Wikala and Sabil-Kuttab of Sultan Qaytbay">Wikala and Sabil-Kuttab of Sultan Qaytbay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikala_of_al-Ghuri" title="Wikala of al-Ghuri">Wikala of al-Ghuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikala_of_Qawsun" title="Wikala of Qawsun">Wikala of Qawsun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikala_of_Sultan_Qaytbay" title="Wikala of Sultan Qaytbay">Wikala of Sultan Qaytbay</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><a href="/wiki/File:Medieval_map_of_Cairo_revised.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Islamic Cairo map"><img alt="Islamic Cairo map" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Medieval_map_of_Cairo_revised.png/130px-Medieval_map_of_Cairo_revised.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Medieval_map_of_Cairo_revised.png/195px-Medieval_map_of_Cairo_revised.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Medieval_map_of_Cairo_revised.png/260px-Medieval_map_of_Cairo_revised.png 2x" data-file-width="1336" data-file-height="2112" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Southern part</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Main streets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Salah_al-Din_Square" title="Salah al-Din Square">Salah al-Din Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saliba_Street" title="Saliba Street">Saliba Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Darb_al-Ahmar" title="Al-Darb al-Ahmar">Al-Darb al-Ahmar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qasaba_of_Radwan_Bey" title="Qasaba of Radwan Bey">Qasaba of Radwan Bey (Tentmakers' Street)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mosques and religious structures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Nasir_Muhammad_Mosque" title="Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque">Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Rifa%27i_Mosque" title="Al-Rifa'i Mosque">Al-Rifa'i Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amir_Khayrbak_Funerary_Complex" title="Amir Khayrbak Funerary Complex">Amir Khayrbak Funerary Complex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aqsunqur_Mosque" title="Aqsunqur Mosque">Aqsunqur Mosque (Blue Mosque)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juyushi_Mosque" title="Juyushi Mosque">Juyushi Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lulua_Mosque" title="Lulua Mosque">Lulua Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasa_of_Sarghatmish" title="Madrasa of Sarghatmish">Madrasa of Sarghatmish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasa_of_Umm_al-Sultan_Sha%27ban" title="Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Sha'ban">Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Sha'ban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasa_of_Uljay_al-Yusufi" title="Madrasa of Uljay al-Yusufi">Madrasa of Uljay al-Yusufi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasa_of_Amir_Sunqur_Sa%27di" title="Madrasa of Amir Sunqur Sa'di">Madrasa of Amir Sunqur Sa'di (Mausoleum of Hasan Sadaqa)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mashhad_of_Sayyida_Ruqayya" title="Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya">Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Imam_al-Shafi%27i" title="Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafi'i">Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafi'i</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Amir_Qawsun" title="Mausoleum of Amir Qawsun">Mausoleum of Amir Qawsun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Tarabay_al-Sharifi" title="Mausoleum of Tarabay al-Sharifi">Mausoleum of Tarabay al-Sharifi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_and_Khanqah_of_Shaykhu" title="Mosque and Khanqah of Shaykhu">Mosque and Khanqah of Shaykhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Amir_al-Maridani" title="Mosque of Amir al-Maridani">Mosque of Amir al-Maridani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_and_Mausoleum_of_Amir_Ahmad_al-Mihmandar" title="Mosque and Mausoleum of Amir Ahmad al-Mihmandar">Mosque and Mausoleum of Amir Ahmad al-Mihmandar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amir_Qijmas_al-Ishaqi_Mosque" title="Amir Qijmas al-Ishaqi Mosque">Mosque of Amir Qijmas al-Ishaqi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Aslam_al-Silahdar" title="Mosque of Aslam al-Silahdar">Mosque of Aslam al-Silahdar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Ibn_Tulun" title="Mosque of Ibn Tulun">Mosque of Ibn Tulun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Khushqadam_el-Ahmadi" title="Mosque of Khushqadam el-Ahmadi">Mosque of Khushqadam el-Ahmadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahmud_al-Kurdi_Mosque" title="Mahmud al-Kurdi Mosque">Mosque of Mahmud al-Kurdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Muhammad_Ali" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosque of Muhammad Ali">Mosque of Muhammad Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Qani-Bay" title="Mosque of Qani-Bay">Mosque of Qani-Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Qanibay_al-Muhammadi" title="Mosque of Qanibay al-Muhammadi">Mosque of Qanibay al-Muhammadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Qaytbay_(Qal%27at_al-Kabsh)" title="Mosque of Qaytbay (Qal'at al-Kabsh)">Mosque of Qaytbay (at Qal'at al-Kabsh)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulayman_Pasha_Mosque" title="Sulayman Pasha Mosque">Mosque of Sulayman Pasha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Taghribirdi" title="Mosque of Taghribirdi">Mosque of Taghribirdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Ulmas_al-Hajib" title="Mosque of Ulmas al-Hajib">Mosque of Ulmas al-Hajib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque-Madrasa_of_Sultan_Hassan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan">Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayeda_Aisha_Mosque" title="Sayeda Aisha Mosque">Sayeda Aisha Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Sayeda_Nafeesah_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque">Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayyidah_Zainab_Mosque,_Cairo" title="Sayyidah Zainab Mosque, Cairo">Sayyidah Zainab Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultaniyya_Mausoleum" title="Sultaniyya Mausoleum">Sultaniyya Mausoleum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Salar_and_Sangar-al-Gawli" class="mw-redirect" title="Tomb of Salar and Sangar-al-Gawli">Tomb of Salar and Sangar-al-Gawli</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Museums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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