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The fatwá of Dr. Yāssir al- Burhāmī, the vice president of the Da’wah al- Salafiah has stirred a debate about the “divorce of a drunk man.”
 ‘Abbās Shūmān, al-Azhar’s spokesperson clarified that the proposal of Ahmad al-Tayyib, Grand Imam of al-Azhar, for a unified program to fight terrorism is an initial idea that has not been decided upon yet. This announcement comes after criticism has been directed at al-Azhar for “abandoning its...
Hānī Shukr Allāh, the press secretary for the Episcopal Church in Egypt, announced the convening of a second conference for the “Together for the Sake of Egypt” project. The conference includes representatives from al-Azhar, Orthodox and Episcopal Churches, as well as several intellectuals and...
 The author criticizes the recent statements by Azhar Scholars' Front.  The author refers to the lowly statements issued by the Azhar Scholars Front and he wonders how such statements can be issued by revered shaykhs who belong to a great institution such as the Azhar. He believes that most of...
Azhar Scholars Front demanded the resignation of Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, Deputy Prime Minister, for speaking sacrilegiously about God.  Al-Jamāl had said on a TV program that if God came on earth and entered the referendum he [God] will get 70 percent, and he [God] has to thank God for that.    
According to the author, the Azhar, as an official religious institution, has taken over the religious state of affairs in Egypt, which has allowed the emergence of religious entities parallel to the Azhar that reject the its monopolization of Islamic Da‘wah. The history of these associations...
Hānī Labīb writes that the al-Misrīyūn website always publishes news that will cause tensions and sectarian crises. This news often deals with prophets and marriages. One of the recent news items claims that Jesus Christ married 5 times, claiming that the Bible makes mention of this. Labīb also...
Dr. al-Birrī is an Azhar scholar who believes that ‘Abd al-Nāsir’s regime was behind sectarianism in Egypt, and that the sectarian problems are a result of ignorance that dominate Muslims and Christians of Egypt.
The following interview discusses the political events in the life of Shaykh al-Mahillawī. It examines the different Egyptian regimes he witnessed since the Egyptian revolution.
The Azhar is experiencing a controversy between scholars who call for the purification of fiqh heritage and those who believe fiqh already contains rules of extended applications and that no scholar now is able to understand such rules.

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