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Al-Azhar Mosque is one of the most important mosques in Egypt, the most famous in the Muslim world. A collector and the University for more than a thousand years, although it was established for the purpose of disseminating Shi'ism when Egypt was opened by the essence of Sicilian commander Muizz first Fatimid caliphs in Egypt, but it is currently taught by Sunni Islam. Having founded the city of Cairo embarked on the establishment of Al-Azhar mosque and completed in the month of Ramadan in the year 361 AH = 972 m is the first mosque constructed in the city of Cairo is the oldest impact the Fatemi based in Egypt. The historians have disagreed in the naming of this mosque, and it is likely that the Fatimids HH-Azhar named after Fatima Zahra daughter of the Prophet and a tribute anniversary.
Is a mosque and university in Cairo, Egypt, built by the essence of Sicilian writer (Sicilian Elias)