{"id":17649,"date":"2022-11-14T05:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T05:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=17649"},"modified":"2022-11-14T05:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T05:03:59","slug":"180000-egyptians-attending-al-azhar-quran-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/17649\/180000-egyptians-attending-al-azhar-quran-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"180,000 Egyptians Attending Al-Azhar Quran Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">The Quran competition named after the Sheikh of Al-Azhar Islamic Center will kick off today with the participation of some 180,000 contenders.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body ah_body\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The contest, organized under the supervision of Al-Azhar chief Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, will run in different stages until November 25.<\/p>\n<p>The organizing committee said yesterday that all preparations have been made for the contest and the organizers have received the required training.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage is held virtually with the participation of students of Al-Azhar and its affiliated centers, Al-Bawabah news reported.<\/p>\n<p>Those who score at least 80 points out of 100 will make it to the next round, namely the regional stage.<\/p>\n<p>The top contenders will then compete in the final round, scheduled to be held in the capital Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is annually organized by Al-Azhar\u2019s Quranic Affairs Department for the students of Al-Azhar and its affiliate Quran memorization centers.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt is a country in North Africa with a population of around 100 million. Muslims account for around 90 percent of the country\u2019s total population.<\/p>\n<p>Quranic activities are very common in the Muslim-majority Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>source: <a href=\"https:\/\/iqna.ir\/en\/news\/3481215\/180000-egyptians-attending-al-azhar-quran-contest\">iqna<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quran competition named after the Sheikh of Al-Azhar Islamic Center will kick off today with the participation of some 180,000 contenders. &nbsp; &nbsp; The contest, organized under the supervision of Al-Azhar chief Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, will run in different stages until November 25. The organizing committee said yesterday that all preparations have been made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}