Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
Some Egyptians have filed lawsuits against the grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyīd Tantāwī calling for his dismissal for his "unacceptable" opinions about the hijāb in France and his position regarding the Danish cartoons against the Prophet Muhammad.
Date of source: Saturday, May 13, 2006
The author investigates in this series of articles the early beginnings of the Salafist ideology that depends on jihād as its principal activity and discusses the reverberations of this movement in several countries.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Talāl al-Ansārī, the second defendant in the so-called al-Fanīya al- ‘Askarīya [Armed Forces Technical College] case of the 1974 abortive coup, continues publishing his diary in episodes in Rose al-Yousuf magazine.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The speech given by Lord Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury, at the opening of the second theological college in Alexandria.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
The Episcopal Church is celebrating the
opening of the
second Alexandria School of Theology in a new attempt to prove its independence from the Evangelical
denominations.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Former member of the Jihād Group and the current spokesman for Egyptian Shi’ites, Sālih al-Wardānī, denies persecution of Shi’ ites in Egypt and declares his intention to establish a Shi’ite political party.
Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2001
For the first time the lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya in Egypt appeared on official Egyptian TV, as the guest of the television program "Penetration." He expressed his opinions concerning the reasons that push radical fundamentalists to resort to violence.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
In an interview with Subhī Mujāhid from Rose al-Yousuf, Shaykh Ibrāhīm ‘Atā al-Fayyoumī, secretary-general of the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, explains the real role of the Azhar and clarifies its judicial authority to confiscate books.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006 to Friday, March 24, 2006
Part of a series of interviews with Talāl al-Ansārī, a former Islamist terrorist who was a member of a violent Islamist group in the 1970s and who served a 20-year term in jail.
Date of source: Thursday, March 2, 2006
Contrary to the expectations of many, the muftī of the republic, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a has apologized for not participating in the newly-formed Interfaith Dialogue Committee affiliated with the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy.