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Founded in 970 CE by the Fatimid general Jawhar al-Siqilli as the congregational mosque of the newly established city of al-Qahira, Al-Azhar became both a place of worship and the seat of what is arguably the world's oldest continuously ope …
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1904
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2021
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1505 · Sultan al-Ghuri
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1474
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