Top Islamic university to open first branch campus

By Wagdy Sawahel. Al-Azhar University – considered the ‘Oxford’ of the Islamic world – is to open its first branch campus outside home country Egypt. The branch in Al Ain, the second largest city in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, is expected to open in September next year.
Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmad Al Tayeb recently signed an agreement with Mohammed Mattar Salem Al Kaabi, general authority of Islamic affairs and endowments for the United Arab Emirates or UAE, to set up the Al-Azhar branch, according to the Emirates News Agency. Read more...