Al-Azhar University جامعة الأزهر الشريف cairo egypt (Greater Cairo)

Al-Azhar University (pronounced "az-HAR", Arabic: الأزهر الشريف‎; Al-ʾAzhar al-Šarīf, "the Noble Azhar") in Egypt, founded in 975, is the chief centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world[1] and the world's second oldest surviving degree granting university.[2] It is associated with Al-Azhar mosque in Old Cairo.