Majallat Al Azhar

The magazine was launched in 1931 under the title Nur Al Islam as a monthly publication.^[1] It was renamed Majallat Al Azhar in 1935.^[1] The publisher is owned by the Al Azhar University, and the headquarters is in Cairo.^[2]

Majallat Al Azhar was one of the publications which opposed the reforms in the 1950s.^[3] In the 1960s its editor was Ahmad Hasan Al Zayyat.^[4] Mahmud Shaltut was one of the contributors of Majalla Al Azhar whose fatwas were published in the magazine.^[5] In the special issue of Majalla Al Azhar dated 1978 to celebrate Al Azhar University's thousand years of establishment Yusuf Al Qaradawi was the major contributor.^[6]