Talk:Al-Azhar University/Archive 1

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Not a university

What the heck is this??? This is not a university but an islamic religious school. This article is about religion and politics, not science, humanities, philosophy, jurisprudence, economics, etc. Get rid of this nonsense ! 141.53.194.251 15:31, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

umm, no, its actually a university. It does have the Muslim equivalent of a christian divinity school though.

More importantly, the article doesn't seem to mention how many students go to Azhar.jackbrown

Mark of Shame

< Trolling removed by yandman 16:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC) >

I beg your pardon, but what does Saudi Arabia have to do with Al-Azhar? You are nothing but a troll.--Abdousi 04:03, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Whatever anyone's opinion one way or another of what they teach, they're still one of the oldest surviving higher education institutions in the world. Which, come to think of it, might bear mentioning in the article somewhere, no? -FZ 20:52, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Why am I a Muslim

LDH 02:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC) This article is nothing more than an advertisement for a religious school. BTW I came across this article while googling for info on Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi's latest endorsement of mass murder. Tantawi is the religious dictator of this so-called university.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The university of Al-Azhar is also responisible for the publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion which is an antesemitic false accusation against the jewish community - a conspiracy theory - saying that the jewish are planing to take over and run the world.

I removed this statement, which was added by an anonymous editor, because it breaks NPOV, is unsourced and is quite harmful (see Template:Fact). If mention of this book is to be made in this article, it must maintain a Neutral Point of View and be accompanied by a citation from a valid source. Cimm[talk] 15:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


70.82.189.128 (talk) 03:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)This university was built by the ismailis, in that period the fatimid empire flourished in Egypt and most of the midle east. It was a tolerant society toward any other ethnic group or religion. The europeans got their education from that university. The fatimid empire invented the first lens (glasses) and they discovered how the blood system works in the human body.70.82.189.128 (talk) 03:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

This university was built by the ismailis, in that period the fatimid empire flourished in Egypt and most of the midle east. It was a tolerant society toward any other ethnic group or religion. The europeans got their education from that university. The fatimid empire invented the first lens (glasses) and they discovered how the blood system works in the human body. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.82.189.128 (talk) 03:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

donot talkabout something you donot know

ALzhar isnot only a normal university but one of the most gratest universities all over the world it is very famous in the islamic world and i have many colleges rather than islamic and arabic studies as medicine , science another many many colleges , scientific researches center which discovered recently a drug for one of major liver diseases . the pic that is added is for ALAZHAR mosque which was established before 1000 years not the university . i want to ask people who dnot know anything about ALAzhar university to shut their mouth and not to talk about something they donot know . thank you

Section for criticism

I noticed that while there is a section for "Response to negative press" there is no section detailing what exactly that negative press is. Every article on a person or institution that has some amount of controversy or criticism about it should contain available information on said issues. It doesn't make sense to have the response without telling readers of Wikipedia what the negative press is in the first place. My suggestion is to create a section for controversy or criticism or both and have the response to that as a subsection. I don't have the time immediately and am not acquainted enough with the criticism of this university to write it right now, so it would be nice if someone could get it started. MezzoMezzo 06:30, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Official link?

Is http://www.azhar.edu.eg/ its official web page? The 'edu.eg' domain should carry some authority? Abu ari 13:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC)