Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 2, 2003
Dr. Soad Saleh, comparative jurisprudence professor at the Azhar University, says that the Mufti of Egypt welcomes her demand to appoint a female mufti. She accepts women assuming presidency of the State but rejects that a woman be appointed as a grand imam of the Azhar
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 25, 2003
The Brotherhood group criticized the Sheikh of the Azhar and declared its refusal of his fatwa concerning the permissibility of bank interest.
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 23, 2007
In al-Musawwar magazine’sinterview with the grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Sayyid Muhammad Ṭanṭāwī, Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī expressed his opinion and attitude on all the issues on the Arab and Islamic scenes.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 10, 2005
A letter of recommendation from Dr. Hassan Muhammad Wagīh, expert of Linguistics of Negotiation and Cross-Cultural Communication, Faculty of Languages, Azhar University, and writer at al-Ahrām newspaper, Cairo.
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 20, 2005 to الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 26, 2005
In a scenario that has already been repeated several times, 31-year-old Coptic lawyer Athanasius William raised the issue of Copts’ joining the Azhar University. When William applied to join the Azhar’s Sharī‘a and Law College, he was denied access in accordance with the university’s rules that...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 16, 2005
The Muslim Foreign Students Hostel of the Azhar University is organizing a symposium about Islam’s condemnation of terrorism.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 7, 2005
The head of the Azhar University’s decision to compel Christian students to memorize the Holy Qur’ān has angered educated Christians. They consider the decision a contravention, both of the Egyptian constitution, and of the principle of equality.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 25, 2005
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayib, president of the Azhar University announced that the university’s council has decided to inaugurate a new faculty in the department of law and sharī‘a in order to teach its subjects in the English language.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 5, 2005
In one of the three books reviewed on page 17 of this issue of al-Qāhira newspaper, Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī says he is one of the defenders of the Umayyad Dynasty, first among them the founder Mu‘āwiya Ibn Abī Sufyān.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 26, 2002
The Mufti of Egypt explains that some journalists committed mistakes in their reports about the fatwa of the Islamic Research Institute concerning bank interest. They reported that the fatwa permits bank "interest" while it permits bank "profits." They reported that the fatwa permits all ways of...