Consolidation of al-Azhar

Timeline

1. 1005Cairo · CairoAl-Hakim founded the Dar al-ʿIlm (House of Knowledge) in Cairo between the two palaces, open to the public for lectures and housing a large library; at the same time he endowed extensive estates and shops as religious waqf, explicitly allocating benefit shares to al-Azhar, the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and the Dar al-ʿIlm.
2. 1009–1010Al-Azhar Mosque · CairoAround 400 AH al-Hakim published a list of religious endowments providing fixed stipends for al-Azhar Qur'an reciters, teachers of the four schools of law, and chairs for Qur'an and hadith, further solidifying al-Azhar from a dynastic mosque into an institutional scholarly establishment.