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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.
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...
 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...
 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.
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.  
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.  
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...
 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.
 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.
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.

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