Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2012
During the past 50 years of our history, the state of affairs in Egypt aggravated due to a despotic propensity that marked the prevalent way of thinking, doubled with the absence of national spirit and sane social development, writes Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb in an opinion...
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2012
AWR obtained the original text of the Azhar documents for Freedom. Please find it below.
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 2010
Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib talks about how Islam and the Qur'ān advocate freedom of religious belief. He says that the existence of diversity among people necessitates the existence of freedom of religious belief. He gives several examples from the Qur'ān and Hadīth showing that Islam...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2010
Shaykh of the Azhar, Professor Ahmad al-Tayyib, seeks to stress through this article the vital role of the Azhar in supporting the spread of peace all over the world through the strengthening of ties and relations between leaders of different religions. He emphasizes that creating peaceful dialogue...
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 2010
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayīb comments on interfaith dialogue and the role participants in such conversation should assume.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
In his second article, Dr. al-Ṭayyīb explains that Islām respects the freedom of creed of non-Muslims and that the Islamic Sharī‘ah never obliges a woman to convert to Islam when marrying a Muslim. The Pact of the Christians of Najrān is a collection of obligatory Islamic rules for treating non-...
Date of source: Thursday, January 4, 2007
All God’s prophets are Muslims, and Islām recognizes all the Monotheistic religions and stresses the cordial relation with Christians. Dr. Aḥmad al-Tayyib points out the prophet’s admiration for Christians and their religion.
Date of source: Monday, December 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: Monday, December 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: Monday, November 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...