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Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
The Southern Cairo Court found Professor Yehia Ismail Hablush, secretary general of the [Azhar] Scholars Front, not guilty in the case in which his opponent the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar accused him of defamation.
Date of source: Thursday, September 21, 2000
Concerted efforts to reconcile the Sheikh of the Azhar and the Scholars’ Front failed after Dr. Tantawi declared that he did not acknowledge the existence of the Scholars’ Front. On the other hand, the General Secretary of the Front said, " the existence of the Azhar Scholars’ Front is a fact that...
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2000
Since the beginning of the conflict between the Sheikh of the Azhar and its scholars, whether they be members of the Front or not, no one has taken any action to stop the ridicule, which could destroy the Azhar. However, only 20 days ago, hundred scholars of the Azhar signed a statement, in which...
Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2000
Counselor Mohammed Arafa, the head of the Technical Office of the General Prosecutor, declared that Dr. Yehia Ismail confessed that he wrote, in Al-Shaab of March 17, an article entitled "The Egyptian Khula is an American Product". In this article he uses many words and sentences that insult the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2000
Counselor Maher Abdel Wahid, Public Prosecutor, agreed to refer the case Dr. Yehia Ismail Habloush, Professor of the College of Religious Origins [’Usul el-Din] at the Azhar University, to the criminal courts, after being accused of insulting and slandering the Sheikh of the Azhar.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2000
An administrative court in Cairo issued a verdict that cancels the municipal decree dissolving the Azhar Scholars’ Front, and fined the Governor of Cairo and the Al-Azhar deputy 200 EgP each. The new success of the Front, which was created in 1946 and modified many times, will strengthen their...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
Terrorism has departed leaving an empty space in its place, the domination over which a long line of new extremists are now fighting. They are the stars of noisy religious speeches on tapes and in books. ... The religious cassette gets higher selling rates than Amr Diab or Kazem Al-Saher [popular...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
In the weekly seminar for Al-Nidaa’ Al-Gadid [The New Call] organization, the attendees attacked the scholars of Al-Azhar, saying that they adopt a kind of Fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] called "Fiqh Al-Nakad" [Fiqh of annoyance]. The attendees said that they [the Azhar scholars] aim by it to defend...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The statement issued by 31 scholars of the Azhar Scholars Front rejecting the Personal Status Law raised many questions about the identity of these scholars and to what extent they belong to the Azhar, especially since Sheikh Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, and The Islamic Research Council...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
In a blow to the sheikh of Al-Azhar’s quest for religious supremacy, a Cairo court on May 9 reversed the banning of the conservative Al Azhar Scholar’s Front (ASF), that has been the bane of Sheikh Muhammed Sayyed Tantawi’s career.
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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.