Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 12, 2007
Fahmī Huwaydī criticizes the use of religion to achieve certain political goals.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 27, 2007
Angry reactions continue to be heard in intellectual circles regarding press freedom. The developments in the crisis of the 80-lash Fatwá issued by the grand imām of the Azhar, calls to abolish imprisonment in publishing-related cases, and the future of press in Egypt are the main subjects...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2007
The article discusses how fanaticism is only being further spread on the Egyptian streets with the distribution of CD’s that deride the beliefs of others.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 29, 2007
The following lines represent reactions of Muslim figures to the statistics that the Middle East Christian Association published about the numbers of mosques and churches in Egypt.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 27, 2007
The ideas of the Islamic groups’ ideological reviews do not differ from the ideas of the Azhar scholars who support the ruling regimes.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2007
The Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī has sent the Judiciary Administrative Court a memorandum, in which he asserted that he has no authority regarding specifying whether to enforce the Ḥadd al-Riddah or not but it is the Dār al-Iftā’’s responsibility.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2007
In their speeches, both Shaykh of the Azhar and the minister of endowments have attacked claims of the Qur’anis that the Sunnah was not revealed by God to Prophet Muhammad but that human hands have fabricated it.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2007
The article presents an interview between Watani International and Dr. ‘Abd al-Mū‘tī Bayyūmī about the process that the Islamic Research Academy employs when choosing to approve or ban any literary works.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 29, 2007
The author compares the grand Imām of the Azhar with Pope Shenouda in how they respond to accusations and touchy situations.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 20, 2007
The recent clash between journalists and the grand Imām of the Azhar after the latter’s controversial speech, in which he demanding punishing rumor-mongers and false reporters with 80 lashes, has marked a new critical turning point in the already-strained relations between non-governmental press...