(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Muslim world Thursday from the Egyptian capital Cairo, which has an Islamic quarter filled with architectural treasures. Following are some facts ...
The grand imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar mosque, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb (R), was welcomed by Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa (L) — Marco BERTORELLO One of the world's leading Islamic clerics on ...
, "mosque of the most resplendent") is a mosque in Islamic Cairo in Egypt. Al-Mu‘izz li-Dīn Allāh of the Fatimid Caliphate commissioned its construction for the newly established capital city in 970.