What is the madrasa system — the network of government-run religious secondary schools attached to Al-Azhar University — officially called?

• A Kulliyat al-Shari'a
• B Dar al-'Ulum
• C Markaz al-Buhuth
• D Ma'ahid Azhariya ✓

The Ma'ahid Azhariya (Al-Azhar Institutes) are state-funded primary and secondary schools that follow both the national curriculum and a parallel religious syllabus, feeding graduates into the faculties of Al-Azhar University — a separate educational pipeline that runs alongside the secular state system.