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Date of source: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, has recommended a delegation of the Anglican Church from the United States to speak of the return to good morals during their sermons.
The Grand Shaykh discussed the Azhar’s rejection of imposing a certain doctrine through power or through...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Dr. Shawqī Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al-Karīm, professor of jurisprudence at the Azhar University branch in Tantā, was elected to be the new Muftī of the Republic. He will replace Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah whose term will end on March 3, 2013 (Lu’ay ‘Alī, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Feb. 12, p. 5). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Grand Shaykhof the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, demanded that the Iranian President must, in accordance with Islamic sharī'ah and international laws and norms, recognize the rights of the Sunnī community in Iran and acknowledge them as equal citizens (Rāmī Nawwār, Amīrah 'Abd al-Salām, Lu'ay 'Alī and...
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2013
The Azhar's Senior Scholars Authority, headed by the Grand Shaykh Ahmed al-Tayyīb, is set on Monday, February 11, 2013 to nominate the three candidates for the position of the country's muftī. The new muftī will succeed the outgoing muftī, ‘Alī Jum'ah, who is set to retire at the age of 61 in March...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Egypt's Grand Mufti, Dr. Shawqi ʿAllām congratulated the Christian denominations inside Egypt as well as Christians worldwide on the occasion of Jesus Christ's nativity, Christmas.
Date of source: Friday, April 10, 2015
The Assembly of Islamic Research congratulates Copts on Easter, saying “Egyptians are One Cloth”
The Assembly of Islamic Research at al-Āzhar University congratulated Pope Tūādrūs the Second and all Copts for the solutions used during the Easter celebrations. The statement explained that Copts...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Osama al-'Abd, Chairman of Azhar University, has said the January 25 revolution's aim was to achieve reform and a better future for Egyptians, adding that the Azhar's role is to spread the moderate principles of Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Safwat 'Abd al-Ghanī, a member of al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyāh's Shūrá Council, handed the group's party papers to the Committee for Political Parties' Affairs.
The party will be called al-Binā' wi al-Tanmīyah.
From the other hand, Ahmad Rāsim al-Nafīs, Shi'ite thinker, said that the documents for...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
People's Assembly member Ahmad al-Sahafi wants to know what the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments has done to encourage imāms to push for acceptance and co-existence between the country's Copts and Muslims, especially in light of the New Year's Day attack on a church in Alexandria.
According to a...
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2010
A controversy regarding whether a Christian can translate the Qur’ān was recently triggered when a Christian researcher in Morocco translated the Muslim holy book into a Berber language, which upset religious scholars in Morocco.
Some Islamic scholars at the Azhar say that it is not allowed...
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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.