al-Azhar University is a public university in Cairo, Egypt, established in 970 AD as an institution for higher Islamic learning. The university was associated with the al-Azhar Mosque, which originated as an Ismaili Shia mosque built by the Fatimids. al-Azhar University' students studied the Quran and sharia law in detail, along with logic, grammar, rhetoric, and astronomy, and la-Azhar became the chief center of Arabic literature and Islamic learning in the world by the 21st century. al-Azhar was re-established as a university in 1961 when a wide range of secular facilities were added for the first time, and an Islamic women's faculty was added in the same year. The university teaches all four schools of Sunni jurisprudence - Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali - but adopted a modernist position during the early 20th century and rebuked the Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat.