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Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 2011
I remember the early drafts of the Azhar document was stressing, inter alia, a civil, democratic and modern state that is based on rotation of power and multi-party system, which is something I think has been established in the largest Sunni Muslim institution's enlightened heritage.
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 2, 2011
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Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayīb, has resumed his meetings after Eīd al-Fitr, with intellectuals and thinkers from various spectrums on the activation of the Azhar document after approval from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 17, 2011
Abū al-‘Ilā Mādī, founding member of Ḥizb al-Wasaṭ, has said that Azhar Shaykh Ahmad Al-Tayīb is concerned only with the reform of the systems of Azhar, after Azhar called for an emergency meeting on the crisis of the so-called "ultra-constitutional principles". This came during a visit to the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 17, 2011
Sources close to the Shaykh of al-Azhar, Doctor Ahmad al-Tayīb, have denied that the urgent meeting held, with a number of high-level political figures including presidential candidates and representatives of political parties, was not to amend the Azhar document. It was also stated that it...
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 15, 2011
The Azhar's Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb called all political powers for an urgent meeting in the Azhar's headquarter in order to reach an agreement on the Azhar's document, targeting to assure the Egyptian identity [Reviewer's Note: News story was also mentioned in al-Misrī al-Yawm Arabic,...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 25, 2011
Journalist Sanā' Sa'īd interviewed Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, Azhar's Grand Shaykh, who, commenting on the protests, said that civil disobedience sometimes can wreak havoc to the nation as a whole.
Sa'īd asked him how to activate the Azhar's document and stress the right Islam, al-Tayīb said that this...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 22, 2011
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) approved a few days ago the basic statute of the Azhar's Egyptian Family House, an initiative that is meant to nip in the bud any signs of Muslim-Christian schisms.
Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, the secretary general of the initiative, said the Family House...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 13, 2011
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George Carey, a member of the House of Lords and Former Archbishop of Canterbury, is due to meet Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, and Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III to discuss ways to support dialogue among the religious institutions in both Egypt and the West.
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Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 14, 2011
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said absolute freedom is chaos that would pose a threat to the society as a whole.
"As Arab and Muslim people, we have our own traditions and values that do not go along with absolute democracy. In our societies, we believe that religion is the thing...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 8, 2011
The Islamic Research Academy, headed by Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb, stressed that al-Azhar is the sole academic authority in the Islamic world, and that no one from any other body, or even those from within al-Azhar, have a right to offer themselves as an alternative, or to speak on behalf of, the affairs...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.