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Date of source: Thursday, October 27, 2016
Dr. Ibrahīm Al-Hodhod, head of Al-Azhar University, said that Islam came as a message of mercy to all people, God Almighty said, "We sent thee not, but as a Mercy for all creatures", and that the Islamic Da`wa is based on the diversity of peoples and communities, there is no way to meet except...
Date of source: Saturday, December 3, 2016
Professor `Abd al-Fattāh al-`Awāri, dean of Islamic Theology at Al-Azhar University said Islam rejects violence, stressing that Islam should not be judged from offenses committed by a few under the pretext of defend Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb is holding a meeting at the Azhar headquarters on Thursday with leading members of the Salafist Call Group, Islamists and preachers.
The meeting will address issues of Muslim unity, da'wah (call) and unified religious discourse in this critical stage of...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Efforts continue to resolve the issue of Church in 'Ātfīh. The church of Two Martyrs St. Mina and St. George was set on fire by angry Muslim young-men, after seeing a Muslim girl with a christian young-man called 'Āshraf Labīb. The church is located in Sūl village of 'Ātfīh (Governorate of Helwan...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 2010
The Islamic Research Academy at the Azhar is set for a meeting on Monday which will be headed by Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, Endowments Minister Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, Grand Muftī Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, and Azhar University Head Dr. ‘Abd Allāh al-Husaynī.
The meeting will discuss the...
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Following the presidential decree that appointed Dr. Ali Goma?a as the new mufti of Egypt, succeeding Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayyeb who takes over as rector of the Azhar University, succeeding Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashim, many papers interviewed the two men and gave short backgrounds about each of them. In these...
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
In his second article, Dr. al-Ṭayyīb explains that Islām respects the freedom of creed of non-Muslims and that the Islamic Sharī‘ah never obliges a woman to convert to Islam when marrying a Muslim. The Pact of the Christians of Najrān is a collection of obligatory Islamic rules for treating non-...
Date of source: Sunday, December 24, 2006
It is high time to relate the Crusades to Christianity. Rev.
Rif‘at responds to Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib’s article in al-Ahrām where he defends
Islam by
attacking Christianity and the Bible.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Photos of the military-style parade staged by the Muslim Brotherhood at al-Azhar University raised alarm in the Egyptian press that the Muslim Brotherhood was forming a militia.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
Six Muslim Brotherhood students were dismissed for forming a students union parallel to the official one at the Azhar University. Consequently, vandals from the group’s students broke into the university building and blockaded the chancellor’s bureau.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
A group of Azhar scholars declare their opinions on the Azhar
researcher’s thesis
that deemed Rose al-Yūsuf Kāfir. All scholars denounced the
Takfīr; however some
approved the negative stance on the periodical.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
The review depicts the corrupted atmosphere of the ManūfīyahBranch of the AzharUniversity, namely the Faculty of Usūl al-Dīn [Fundamentals of Religion] where the Takfīr thesis against Rose al-Yūsuf was recently discussed. The review also states Ahmad al-Tayyib’s opinion on the matter.
Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2006
In the second emission of the interview with Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, the former Muftīī of Egypt discusses the Ḥijāb and Niqāb referring that there are far much serious issues that Muslims need to be occupied with instead. He refers to some foreign powers that try to attract Egypt Muslims by their...
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2006
Following the mixed public reaction to the recent statements made by the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārūq Husnī, on the Ḥijāb, the People’s Assembly’s committees for Religious Affairs and Culture and Media held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue. In an attempt to...
Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2006
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, the president of the
Azhar University, blames the
eruption of conflict in many parts of the world and the
development of the crusades as holy wars on the Catholic
Church’s reading of the Holy Bible.
Date of source: Sunday, November 26, 2006
The review deals with Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī’s latest remarks in which he termed the Ḥijāb to be "a relapse backward," drawing public controversy and anger in parliament where the ruling party, the opposition and independents agreed on the need to have the minister tender his...
Date of source: Friday, November 24, 2006
This review, in the context of ramifications from the culture minister’s controversial statements on the Ḥijāb, discusses various opinions on whether the Ḥijāb is a religious obligation and how such controversial discussions should be tackled by society, religious and political bodies...
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
In a series of articles published by al-Ahrām
newspaper, Dr. Ahmad al-
Tayyib, the president of the Azhar University, analyses Pope Benedict
XVI’s speech of September 12,
2006.
Date of source: Monday, November 20, 2006
Islam promotes and celebrates diversity of mankind. had God
wanted all people to believe in one
religion, He would have made it so.
Date of source:
The victory of the
Moslem Brotherhood in the recent parliamentary elections in which they obtained 17 seats created many
speculations about what
they would do in the future, especially after they announced their intention to
form a new political party. al-Musawar
discarded the possibility of...
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