CAIRO (Reuters) - A venerable centre of Islamic learning in Cairo has become a new battlefield in the Muslim Brotherhood's struggle to keep its battered cause alive against Egypt's army-backed rulers.
When General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appeared on television in July to tell Egyptians he had deposed their first freely elected leader, the grand imam of al-Azhar was among those at his side.
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