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Robeir al-Faris discusses the decision announced by Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī regarding permitting Copts to study at the Azhar. He further mentions the recent furor caused by a documentary that depicts Christ from a Muslim perspective.
Dr. Jābir ‘Aṣfūr, the secretary general of the Supreme Council for Culture, responds to an article entitled, ’No Theocracy in Islām,’ authored by the grand Imām of the Azhar, Muḥammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī, published in al-Ahrām on February 21, 2007.
The writer tackles the idea of reforming religious sermons, whether Islamic or Christian, through Dr. Nabīl ‘Abd al-Fattāh’s book entitled, ‘The Religious Speech in the Egyptian Mass Media in the Ninety’s.’
The Ministry of Education in Daqahlīyah governorate has dismissed 600 teachers of Christianity from the governorate’s schools who work according to a reward system of remuneration. The jobs have been assigned to unqualified teachers.
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.
The article presents three important questions that deal with the sensitive relationship between Christians and Muslims in Egypt.
The Grand Imām stressed to the Gouvernor-General of Australia that Islām is against terrorism in all its forms. In other news, Pope Shenouda ratified the formation of new directorates for the Egyptian Coptic churches in the United States.
A conference held at the Azhar University, attended by Muslim scholars and medical doctors from Africa, Asia and Europe, condemns female circumcision and denies that it is a religious practice.
The Egyptian press has widely covered the four-day visit that Pope Benedict XVI paid to Turkey from November 28 to December 1, 2006 in an obvious attempt to heal the wounds opened by his earlier "offensive" remarks on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. According to political analysts, the pontiff’s...
The Sheikh of the Azhar declared that any coalition with the USA is H...

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