His own fatwas have often been challenged by a rival authority, the ancient university of al-Azhar.
Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, whose offices were attacked, is the university's ultimate authority.
Both the government and al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's highest authority, condemned the incident.
Azhar Mahmood, too, is coming back from a lean spell, but he's a quality performer.
Al Azhar is nothing less than the premiere Islamic university in the entire world.
The men, who were released, were Maulana Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Zargar.
Maulana Azhar maintains a low profile these days and no longer wields the same power.
His response was a typically polished 33 before being caught behind off Azhar Mahmood.
Al-Azhar al-Sharif institute in Cairo said it sought to "re-establish ties based on mutual respect and understanding".
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Abdul Razzaq and Azhar Mahmood took four wickets each as the provincial side fell short of their target.
His papacy got off to a rocky start with al-Azhar, which accused Benedict of repeatedly addressing Islam negatively.
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"Arafat served his people all his life until he faced his God with courage and honesty, " Azhar said.
Proponents of nearly all varieties of Islamic legal thinking--mu'tazila, ahl-al-hadith, and usuli alike--found intellectual homes in Al Azhar.
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Its imam would be a senior Islamic scholar, drawn from Cairo's al-Azhar university.
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"This is the big question, " says Dr Mokahmer Abu Sada, who teaches politics at Al Azhar University in Gaza.
Grand Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi Azhar gave the opening prayer at Cairo's al-Jalaal mosque, starting the official funeral ceremony.
Al-Azhar University, a revered 1, 000-year-old seat of Sunni Muslim teaching in Cairo, has come out strongly against any change.
And, over the course of the next four decades, the Saudis steadily purchased the ideological direction of Al Azhar.
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Al-Azhar (which means the "most flourishing and resplendent" in English) was named after Fatima al-Zahraa, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
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But, after Azhar had been caught behind off Ben Hilfenhaus, the dismissal of Butt proved the catalyst to Australia's victory.
Hundreds of students at Egypt's al-Azhar university broke into the offices of the country's top Muslim cleric of the al-Azhar mosque.
Hammad Azhar, a 31-year-old lawyer, as an educated first-timer is the model PTI candidate, though he comes from a wealthy political family.
The attack happened at about 1700 (1500 GMT) on Thursday, close to al-Azhar mosque, which is a major seat of Islamic learning.
"Whatever our differences are, they should be solved peacefully, " Mr ElBaradei said in a press conference after the al-Azhar meeting on Thursday.
It was still associated with Sufis, and a cluster of coffee houses grew up in Cairo around the religious university of the Azhar.
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And Kent coach Paul Farbrace currently has no pace bowling cover beyond overseas pair Azhar Mahmood and Makhaya Ntini, along with Amjad Khan.
The university belongs to the al-Azhar mosque, one of the main centres of Sunni Muslim learning, which also awards degrees in sciences and humanities.
Nevertheless, the all-rounders lend flexibility to the one-day squad, with Shoaib Malik and Azhar Mahmood both capable of match-winning performances with bat or ball.
He later lectured at the prestigious Al Azhar University (where President Obama would deliver his speech of outreach to the Muslim world in 2009).
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