Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 7, 1998
If Copts do not agree on using the Canon Law of the Coptic Orthodox Church for inheritance issues, they can resort to the Sharia, Islamic law. Many, writes Rose el-Yousef, do.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 9, 1998
Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Sheikh of the Azhar, want to bring Al-Ahrar newspaper and Dr. Yahia Ismael, a professor at Azhar University and ex-head of the Azhar Scholars’ Front, in court for the above translated article in al-Ahrar of September 5.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 8, 1998
The author laments changes that took place at the Azhar. It is another critique on Dr. Tantawi, the sheikh of the Azhar.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 1998
The paper criticizes a new film which is shown in Cairo’s cinema’s. The paper asks the opinion of several people, including dr. Yehia Ismail who accuses the sheikh al Azhar of not protecting religious values.
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 4, 1998
Al Shaab interviewed Prof. Mohammed Abed El Miniem Khafaga, one of the leading old guard of the Azhar University, about the developments at the Azhar in the past decades.
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 31, 1998
A new advanced computer program offers the possibility of getting a picture of a certain person through inserting information on the person’s features.
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 29, 1998
Suicide in the defense of Islam is considered martyrdom. But martyrdom should not be mixed with terrorism.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 21, 1998
The author asks the editor of al-Shaab not to attack important institutions of Islam such as the sheikh of the Azhar since this harms Islam.
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 17, 1998
Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the Sheikh of the Azhar Mosque, denounced the explosions that took place lately in the American Embassies and said that this is a result of America giving refuge to terrorists.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 14, 1998
A heated confrontation took place between the Sheikh of the Azhar and Dr. Mustafa Imam, professor in the Faculty of Arabic Language at the Azhar University, during a press conference held by the Sheikh last Tuesday.