Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 1, 2011
The Islamic Research Academy renewed its disagreement on the unified law of building houses of worship and insisted on the 2001 statute that regulates building mosques.
This came in a meeting headed by the Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and Muftī of the Republic Dr. 'Alī Jum'ah.
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Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2011
The Azhar's Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayīb said that he rejects all attempts at spreading Shiism in Egypt and the Islamic countries, as well as Shia "insults" against Prophet Mohamed’s companions and Sunni figures.
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Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 19, 2011
Members of the Islamic Research Academy are against the unified law for building worship places and demanded the cabinet decision on 2011 that regulates building mosques.
An urgent meeting of the members of the Academy headed by Azhar Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, stressed that a special law...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 19, 2011
Dr. Butrus Ghālī, secretary general of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) visited Azhar's Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, and praised the Azhar document. They exchanged opinions about the position of the Azhar and the church from the unified law of building worship places.
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Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2011
Members of the 'Family House' initiative headed by the Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and attended by representatives of the Egyptian church refused the draft law of the unified law for building houses of worship and agreed on the 2001 statute that regulates building mosques and asked for...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 13, 2011
Clashes erupted between the military and the Copts during the latters' protests off the state TV building in Maspero, on October 9, 2011, leaving nearly 24 Copts dead and 212 others injured. Some reports mentioned the death of three army soldiers and 100 others injured.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 6, 2011
Azhar's Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, condemned the attack on Saint George's Church in Aswan and called on elders in the Upper Egyptian governorate to unite and fight fitnah that poses a threat to Muslim-Christian relations.
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Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2011
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, Azhar's Grand Shaykh, met with a group of intellectuals, thinkers, representatives of Islamic movements and Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to study an 'Arab Spring' document that calls on Arab rulers to listen to their people. This document will be an extension of the Azhar's document...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2011
أكد الإمام الأكبر الدكتور أحمد الطيب، شيخ الأزهر، أن الأزهر الشريف لن يقف مكتوف الأيدى أمام المحاولات المحمومة والمتكررة لنشر التشيع بين المصريين وبجوار مآذن الأزهر، قلعة أهل السنة والجماعة، وغيره من الدول العربية والإسلامية السنية، وقال إن الأزهر الشريف التزم الحكمة والصمت تجاه الكتب التى توزع فى...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2011
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb called on the Western religious institutions led by the Vatican to stop "spreading the culture of hatred and incitation against Islam and end groundless attacks on it."
"We need to search for enlightened models that would contribute to disseminating the...