Protector of the "al-wasatiyya" Islam: Cairo's al-Azhar university

Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Madinah and al-Mustafa

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 73-90

  Bano, Masooda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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3. Official data from al-Azhar University, March 2013.
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5. Until its nationalisation in 1961
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