Al-Azhar University

Al-Azhar University - public university in Cairo, Egypt. This university is the 89^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 202^nd most popular university in English Wikipedia. Article “Al-Azhar University” in English Wikipedia has 92.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 100 references and 18 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Al-Azhar University” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Al-Azhar University”, its content was written by 541 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1632 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Al-Azhar University is on the 202^nd place in local ranking of universities in English Wikipedia and on the 89^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The article is cited 1601 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7639 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9789 in August 2008
• Global: #2382 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34889 in November 2023
• Global: #23038 in November 2023

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Al-Azhar University		92.1699
2	Spanish (es) Universidad de al-Azhar		68.9216
3	French (fr) Université al-Azhar		58.717
4	Chinese (zh) 艾資哈爾大學		52.3917
5	Arabic (ar) جامعة الأزهر		48.8168
6	Malay (ms) Universiti al-Azhar		46.2713
7	Russian (ru) Университет аль-Азхар		46.0426
8	Tamil (ta) அல்-அசார் பல்கலைக்கழகம்		44.8934
9	Indonesian (id) Universitas Al-Azhar		40.9538
10	Georgian (ka) ალ-აზჰარის უნივერსიტეტი		38.3884

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Al-Azhar University" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Al-Azhar University		3 606 320
2	Arabic (ar) جامعة الأزهر		1 018 247
3	Indonesian (id) Universitas Al-Azhar		978 544
4	Russian (ru) Университет аль-Азхар		452 789
5	French (fr) Université al-Azhar		419 685
6	Turkish (tr) El-Ezher Üniversitesi		287 663
7	Persian (fa) دانشگاه الازهر		277 182
8	Japanese (ja) アル＝アズハル大学		204 220
9	Spanish (es) Universidad de al-Azhar		191 842
10	Polish (pl) Al-Azhar		123 457

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Al-Azhar University" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Al-Azhar University		16 136
2	Indonesian (id) Universitas Al-Azhar		7 086
3	Arabic (ar) جامعة الأزهر		6 563
4	Russian (ru) Университет аль-Азхар		2 744
5	French (fr) Université al-Azhar		1 621
6	Turkish (tr) El-Ezher Üniversitesi		1 474
7	Persian (fa) دانشگاه الازهر		977
8	Japanese (ja) アル＝アズハル大学		822
9	Chinese (zh) 艾資哈爾大學		763
10	Malay (ms) Universiti al-Azhar		567

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Al-Azhar University" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Al-Azhar University		541
2	Arabic (ar) جامعة الأزهر		132
3	French (fr) Université al-Azhar		104
4	Russian (ru) Университет аль-Азхар		63
5	Italian (it) Università al-Azhar		61
6	Dutch (nl) Al-Azhar-universiteit		55
7	Spanish (es) Universidad de al-Azhar		51
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه الازهر		46
9	Hungarian (hu) Azhar Egyetem		42
10	Japanese (ja) アル＝アズハル大学		40

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Al-Azhar University" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Al-Azhar University		6
2	Arabic (ar) جامعة الأزهر		2
3	Finnish (fi) Al-Azharin yliopisto		2
4	Persian (fa) دانشگاه الازهر		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Əl-Əzhər Universiteti		0
6	Belarusian (be) Універсітэт Аль-Азхар		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Ал-Азхар		0
8	Catalan (ca) Universitat d'al-Azhar		0
9	Czech (cs) Univerzita al-Azhar		0
10	Danish (da) Al-Azhar Universitet		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Al-Azhar University" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Arabic (ar) جامعة الأزهر		1 840
2	English (en) Al-Azhar University		1 601
3	Urdu (ur) جامعہ الازہر		479
4	Persian (fa) دانشگاه الازهر		445
5	Indonesian (id) Universitas Al-Azhar		434
6	French (fr) Université al-Azhar		412
7	Russian (ru) Университет аль-Азхар		309
8	Malay (ms) Universiti al-Azhar		197
9	Spanish (es) Universidad de al-Azhar		188
10	Turkish (tr) El-Ezher Üniversitesi		178

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جامعة الأزهر
az	Azerbaijani Əl-Əzhər Universiteti
be	Belarusian Універсітэт Аль-Азхар
bg	Bulgarian Ал-Азхар
ca	Catalan Universitat d'al-Azhar
cs	Czech Univerzita al-Azhar
da	Danish Al-Azhar Universitet
de	German Azhar-Universität
el	Greek Πανεπιστήμιο Αλ Αζχάρ
en	English Al-Azhar University
eo	Esperanto Universitato Al-Azhar
es	Spanish Universidad de al-Azhar
et	Estonian Al-Azhari ülikool
eu	Basque Al-Azhar unibertsitatea
fa	Persian دانشگاه الازهر
fi	Finnish Al-Azharin yliopisto
fr	French Université al-Azhar
hi	Hindi अल-अजहर विश्वविद्यालय
hr	Croatian Sveučilište Al-Azhar
hu	Hungarian Azhar Egyetem
hy	Armenian Ալ-Ազհարի համալսարան
id	Indonesian Universitas Al-Azhar
it	Italian Università al-Azhar
ja	Japanese アル＝アズハル大学
ka	Georgian ალ-აზჰარის უნივერსიტეტი
kk	Kazakh Әл-Азһар университеті
ko	Korean 알아즈하르 대학교
la	Latin Universitas al-Azhar
lt	Lithuanian Al Azharo universitetas
ms	Malay Universiti al-Azhar
nl	Dutch Al-Azhar-universiteit
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Al-Azharuniversitetet
no	Norwegian Al-Azhar-universitetet
pl	Polish Al-Azhar
pt	Portuguese Universidade de Alazar
ru	Russian Университет аль-Азхар
sh	Serbo-Croatian Univerzitet Al-Azhar
simple	Simple English Al-Azhar University
sk	Slovak Univerzita al-Azhar
sr	Serbian Univerzitet Al-Azhar
sv	Swedish Al-Azharuniversitetet
ta	Tamil அல்-அசார் பல்கலைக்கழகம்
th	Thai มหาวิทยาลัยอัลอัซฮัร
tr	Turkish El-Ezher Üniversitesi
uk	Ukrainian Аль-Азгар
ur	Urdu جامعہ الازہر
vi	Vietnamese Đại học Al Azhar
zh	Chinese 艾資哈爾大學

Best Rank

English: #34889 11.2023

Global: #23038 11.2023

Best Rank

English: #9789 08.2008

Global: #2382 08.2011

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