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Date of source: Thursday, January 12, 2012
Pursuing Egyptians' efforts to recover the spirit of the revolution, a meeting hosted by the Azhar on Wednesday (January 11) called for consummating power handover to a civil government as scheduled, refraining from bringing civilians before military courts and releasing all political prisoners....
Date of source: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The statement underlined some controls and governing principles of these freedoms in light of the Arab Spring revolutions in a way that would preserve societal accordance and public interests in a stage of democratization in several Arab countries.
The statement noted that the Azhar's call was only...
Date of source: Friday, January 6, 2012
“Muslims and Christians in the East make a united national fabric. Past dictatorial and despotic regimes have harmed both Muslims and Christians,” Dr. Tayyīb said during a meeting with Patriarch Gregory III Laham of the Church of Antioch on January 5.
The top Sunni Muslim cleric also appealed to...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 27, 2011
The committee concerned with the law on developing the Azhar finalized the draft and will refer it to the Islamic Research Academy. The development includes restructuring the senior ulema board and choosing the Azhar’s Grand Shaykh among them. [Muhammad 'Abd al-Khāliq, al-Ahrām, Dec. 27, p. 14]...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Clerics have cautioned people against using the month of Ramadan for sleep, laziness and inactivity. Dr. Ahmad ‘Amr Hāshim, former President of the Azhar University, warned against sleeping through the hours of fasting and waking at the dusk call to prayer.
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
In an announcement, the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb and a number of Muslim scholars of the Islamic Research Academy as well as Jamā´at Ansār al-Sunnah al-Muhammadiyyah, al-Jama´iyyah al-Shari´iyyah, members of different Islamic streams and al-Da´wah al-Salafiyyah spoke out against...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
After a number of meetings between Ahmad al-Tayyīb, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, and different political forces, the Azhar launched a new initiative proposing principles for the formation of the constituent assembly charged with drafting a constitution. The initiative seeks to prevent parliament...
Date of source: Friday, September 30, 2011
The Azhar's Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayīb said that he rejects all attempts at spreading Shiism in Egypt and the Islamic countries, as well as Shia "insults" against Prophet Mohamed’s companions and Sunni figures.
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Date of source: Monday, October 17, 2011
The Azhar and the church had refused the unified law for building worship places and demanded the acknowledgment of the conditions of building mosques according to the Ministry of Awqaf proposal on 2001 and the acknowledgment of a similar decision for building churches.
Members of the 'Family House...
Date of source: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Azhar's Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, condemned the attack on Saint George's Church in Aswan and called on elders in the Upper Egyptian governorate to unite and fight fitnah that poses a threat to Muslim-Christian relations.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.