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Unisma’s postgraduate program has established a strategic partnership with the Observatory Unit at Al-Azhar University in Egypt. This strategic partnership was initiated domestically by two institutions: Universitas Islam Malang (Unisma) and the KH. Abdul Chalim Institute, through the establishment of a deradicalization research center and a multicultural studies center. The deradicalization research center and the multicultural studies center subsequently collaborated with the Al-Azhar Observatory in Egypt.
This strategic partnership is aimed at fulfilling the mandate outlined in Preamble of the 1945 Constitution to foster world peace and social justice. This strategic alliance also serves as a national effort to strengthen the unity of Indonesia and its diversity, promoting Moderate Islam (Islam Washatiyah) and a distinctive and robust Multicultural Islamic Education in Indonesia.
View the Profile of Unisma’s Multicultural Islamic Studies Center
In addition to collaborating with Al-Azhar Observatory in Egypt, Unisma’s Director of Postgraduate Program, Prof. H.M. Mas’ud Said, MM., Ph.D., along with Prof. Dr. KH. Asep Syaifudin Chalim, Head of the Amanatul Ummah Islamic Boarding School, and Governor Khofifah, previously met with Grand Sheikh Prof. Dr. At-Thayeb of Al-Azhar University.
The delegation from East Java also visited East Javanese students currently pursuing their studies in Egypt, as well as renowned ulama in Pharaonic Egypt. Among them were Senior Hadith Scholar Sheikh Abd. Aziz Baiz Al-Kattani, Mufti Sheikh Prof. Dr. Muhanna, former Rector of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Hud-Hud at Baital Muhammadi, Sheikh Ala Mustofa Naimah in Alexandria, and Sheikh Abd. Aziz Sahawi.
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Egypt is known as one of the countries with the oldest civilizations in the world. The Land of the Nile also boasts a long history of human civilization, comparable to the Yellow River Valley in China, the Indian civilization, the Mesopotamian civilization, Ancient Greek civilization, and the Maya civilization in South America, among others.
Egypt is inextricably linked to discussions about the Nile River, one of the longest rivers in the world; the legendary tales of the Pharaohs; and the stories of the Sphinx and the pyramids, which still hold various unsolved mysteries to this day (AAFR/AL/PSJ).
