Al-Azhar Great Mosque
White-domed mosque of the nineteen-fifties where a famed scholar's dawn Quran lectures began.
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This guide to the Al-Azhar Great Mosque in Jakarta follows Hamka, the scholar and writer who preached here at dawn in the years after a visiting Grand Imam from Cairo gave the mosque its name. It turns on a morning in January nineteen sixty-four, when Indonesian politics reached the chief imam of this quiet white mosque. Best heard standing beneath the dome, where his lectures were given.
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