Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 17, 2014
A recent disclosure scandal revealed the existence of a “Controlling Apparatus of Foreign Publications and Press” that checks whether foreign books and newspapers contain any unseemly and inappropriate content, with headquarters at Tala‘at Harb in Cairo Downtown.
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 19, 2014
Sheikh Ahmad Turk, head of research and advocacy at the Ministry of Endowments has released information regarding meetings conducted between members of the Salafī organization and the Minister of Endowments, Muhamad Mukhtār Jum’ah.
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 18, 2014
Dr. Mahmūd ‘Ashūr, former Azhar representative, declared that the Turkish Interior Minister’s description of Prophet Muhamad (PBUH) as “arrogant” expresses the extent of this Turkish official’s ignorance about the Prophet, Islam, and Islamic heritage.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 27, 2018
Al-Azhar Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence, Dr. Saʿd al- Hilālī said that any fatwa issued on equality in inheritance between man and woman is binding only to the one who decides to implement it.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 27, 2018
The fundamental traditional Islam spread in Egypt not only among followers of Islamist political movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, but also among the ordinary segments of the population, and after decades of abortions of any attempt to renew the religious discourse.
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Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 11, 2014
President Abd al- Fattāh al- Sīsī has issued a law that establishes Bayt al- Zakah (House of alms).
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 14, 2014
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Shaykh, Ahmad al-Tayyib, made a decision to appoint Dr. Muhyiddin Afifī as Secretary General of the Islamic Research Academy.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 13, 2014
Dr. Ahmad al- Tayyib, Shaykh of the Azhar, stated that the aggression of the “Zionist entity” against the Gaza Strip is a genocide against the unarmed Palestinian people.
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 12, 2014
Dr Ahmad al- Tayyib, the Azhar Shaykh is traveling on Sunday to the Emirates to receive the Dubai International Award for the Holy Qur’ān.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 25, 2018
On behalf of the Egyptian Government, the Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs ʿUmar Marwān (Omar Marawan) required the adding of the representative of the Egyptian Church to the permanent committee of technical, legal and administrative experts on the protection of manuscripts.