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Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
Hundereds of niqāb-clad women protested in front of the Azhar office on May 5, 2011 as they are against opinions by Egypt's Grand Muftī Alī Jum'ah regarding the all-covering veil.
Date of source: Thursday, May 12, 2011
In a conference held by the Muslim Brotherhood in al-Mansūrah stadium, Murshid [Guide] Dr. Muhammad Badī' said that the MB will bring up Egyptians on faith and conscience until they demand the application of hudūd.
He added that the hudūd is an obligation and the people do not get punished for...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb welcomed cooperation with the salafī and all Islamist movements in order to reach a unified Muslim discourse under the aegis of the Azhar.
This came during the meeting between Tayīb and salafī leader Shaykh Muhammad Hasān, the first of its kind between the...
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...
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