Date of source: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, the Azhar's Grand Shaykh, continued his meetings with intellectuals and thinkers in order to find ways to activate the Azhar document.
The meetings will mainly focus on the uses of culture and education to present proposals to develop these two fields.
Date of source: Sunday, August 28, 2011
Dr. 'Alī Abū al-Khayr, an Islamic writer, warns against salafists who issued fatwás about covering the faces of the Pharaonic statues with wax because they look like idols.
'Abd al-Mun'im al-Shahāt, a salafī leader, said that the Egyptian civilization is rotten and the statues look like the idols...
Date of source: Sunday, August 28, 2011
Dr. Mahmūd 'Azab, advisor to the Azhar grand shaykh, said that the Azhar does not know anything about the Shi'ite political party called 'al-Wihdah,' and the Azhar does not have an opinion on political parties in general.
He added that Azhar's role is to protect moderate Islam Sunnah, reject...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Mahmūd 'Izat, deputy of the general murshid or guide of the Muslim Brotherhood group (MB), welcomed the idea of opening offices for the Islamic movement 'Hamās' in Cairo, which was ruled out by political experts.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Islamist and secular groups on Wednesday endorsed a document issued by Al-Azhar earlier this summer affirming that Egypt’s new political system should be democratic. But they disagreed over whether to make the document binding on the architects of the first post-Mubarak constitution.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The Democratic Alliance for Egypt, a massive political coalition formed in early June to heal the rift between Islamists and secularists, may be on the verge of falling apart, with ideological differences proving too large to overcome.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The recent Muslim Brotherhood statement demanding that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) refrain from interfering in how the constitution is drawn up by producing a list of supra-constitutional principles could mean the end of the honeymoon period between the military and the country's...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Despite ongoing feuds over the identity of the state in post-Mubarak Egypt, both secularists and Islamists have recently agreed on one issue: the necessity of liberating Al-Azhar from government control. Yet, each camp has its own motives for supporting an autonomous clergy.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Dr. Sālim 'Abd al-Jalīl, Deputy Minister of Awqaf [Endowments] for Da'wah and preachers affairs, talked about the problems inside the Ministry, saying that security and business men like Ahmad 'Iz would interfere by bribing Imams to urge people to vote for them in the parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, former muftī of the Republic, said that he supports the political isolation of the former regime and accused the regime's symbols of corrupting the political life. He called to apply God's law on them by isolating, exiling, or killing them following proof of their corruption.