Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 24, 2006
It is high time to relate the Crusades to Christianity. Rev.
Rif‘at responds to Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib’s article in al-Ahrām where he defends
Islam by
attacking Christianity and the Bible.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 13, 2006
Photos of the military-style parade staged by the Muslim Brotherhood at al-Azhar University raised alarm in the Egyptian press that the Muslim Brotherhood was forming a militia.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 14, 2006
Hāzim ‘Abduhlists a number of Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers and writers, whom he says have launched a vicious campaign against Islām in an attempt to undermine Islamic culture and values.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 9, 2006 to الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 15, 2006
Six Muslim Brotherhood students were dismissed for forming a students union parallel to the official one at the Azhar University. Consequently, vandals from the group’s students broke into the university building and blockaded the chancellor’s bureau.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 9, 2006 to الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 15, 2006
A group of Azhar scholars declare their opinions on the Azhar
researcher’s thesis
that deemed Rose al-Yūsuf Kāfir. All scholars denounced the
Takfīr; however some
approved the negative stance on the periodical.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 9, 2006 to الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 15, 2006
The review depicts the corrupted atmosphere of the ManūfīyahBranch of the AzharUniversity, namely the Faculty of Usūl al-Dīn [Fundamentals of Religion] where the Takfīr thesis against Rose al-Yūsuf was recently discussed. The review also states Ahmad al-Tayyib’s opinion on the matter.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 4, 2006
In the second emission of the interview with Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, the former Muftīī of Egypt discusses the Ḥijāb and Niqāb referring that there are far much serious issues that Muslims need to be occupied with instead. He refers to some foreign powers that try to attract Egypt Muslims by their...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 1, 2006
Following the mixed public reaction to the recent statements made by the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārūq Husnī, on the Ḥijāb, the People’s Assembly’s committees for Religious Affairs and Culture and Media held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue. In an attempt to...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 4, 2006
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, the president of the
Azhar University, blames the
eruption of conflict in many parts of the world and the
development of the crusades as holy wars on the Catholic
Church’s reading of the Holy Bible.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 27, 2006
Dr. Ahmad
al-Tayyib, chancellor of the Azhar University and former Muftī of Egypt,
expressed his
anxiety about what is going on with fatwá’s in an interview with Dr. Durrīyah
Sharaf al-
Dīn. He stressed the superficiality of some Muslims nowadays and the compelling need to move from
appearance...