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Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Azhar received a phone call from the Saudi Arabia-based family of Usāmah Bin Lādin, expressing thanks for the Azhar's position against the burial of al-Qā'idah leader's body.
U.S. forces had killed Bin Lādin in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan and threw his body into the sea, which Muslims...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
The Ministry of Awqāf managed to take back al-Nūr mosque pulpit after the salafī movement snatched it away during the past Fridays.
After Friday prayers clashes had erupted between security forces and the military on one hand and the salafists on the other.
[Reviewer's Note: News story was also...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
Hundreds of salafists, including dozens of fully-veiled women, protested outside the Azhar offices in northern Cairo, urging the Muftī, a senior Muslim cleric in Egypt who issues religious edicts, to backtrack on his view on the head-to-toe veil.
The protesters raised banners that went further...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
Khālid al-Islāmbūlī, a nephew of Khālid al-Islāmbūlī, a top convict in the murder of late President Anwar al-Sadāt, arrived in Cairo on May 7, 2011.
He came from Iran through Turkey after a 23 years of absence. He and his family were not banned form entering Egypt, even during the time of the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2011
Salafī Shaykh Muhammad Hasān praised the pure revolution of Egypt's youths that eliminated corruption, adding that an Islamic state would guarantee safety for Copts.
Hasān condemned the killing of Usāmah Bin Lādin and throwing his body into the sea, considering him a martyr. [Read Salafī Shaykh...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
For the first time the Azhar's Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, met with Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Murshid (Guide) Muhammad Badī' at the Azhar headquarters on May 3, 2011.
During the meeting, Tayīb said that the MB was never far from the Azhar and that there are common grounds between the two sides...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Salafists rushed into launching conferences to assure their ideologies of assuring the Islamic identity of the country and forcing it on the community.
Dr. 'Abd al-Mu'tī Bayūmī, a professor in the Azhar University and Dean of the Faculty of Usūl al-Dīn, said that religion is innocent from...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, former Muftī of the Republic and member of the Islamic Research Academy, said that niqāb is not a farīdah or a religious duty, but should be categorized as personal freedom.
Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2011
In an interview conducted with Nājih Ibrāhīm, a senior scholar of the al-Jamā'ah Islāmīyah (Islamic Group), said that Islamists form political parties in search of legitimacy, not power or political gains.
He added that the Islamist movement needs to realize the difference between da'wah (Muslim...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2011
The Azhar formed on April 28, 2011 a committee specialized in regulating the work of the top Sunni establishment to review the law in order to guarantee its independence and integrity in selecting a grand shaykh and deputies.
[Reviewer's Note: the article did not specify clearly that the Azhar...
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