Date of source: Thursday, December 10, 2009
‘Ulā Mustafá ‘Āmir writes about the new adoption law for non-Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Zaynab ‘Abd Allāh reports on different opinions of Azhar scholars regarding the developing plan of the Azhar education.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Nabīl ‘Abd al-‘Azīz reports about Zaynab Radwān’s and the Grand Imām concerning Zaynab’s fatwá.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Muhammad Khalīl reports about the refusal of the ‘Azhar to depict the Prophet Muhammad and his companions in a film about Islam.
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2006
International Religious Freedom Report 2006, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Hilmī al-Nimnim answers
October’s rumor
about the Azhar preventing a book from being published.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradwi, the head of the European Fatwa Council, said that the Islamic Research Center did not acknowledge him. But the former rector of the Azhar, Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi and Dr. Mustafa Al-Shoka’a denied this and stressed that Al-Qaradawi is a great scholar and that there was no...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 29, 2000
In its previous issue, Al-Midan warned that there are private offices which started entering the Fatwa business [a religious decree given by a Muslim scholar or a Mufti] and assuring others that their Fatwas are recognized by the official agencies. It is evident now that the Azhar’s negligence...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 29, 2000
[Translator’s note: All Translation of verses from the Qur’an are taken from The Koran Interpreted, Arthur J. Arberry, Oxford University Press, 1964.]
Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin stressed that the Azhar did not do an act of courtesy in its report on his book "My Father Adam". He declared his opposition...
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Saturday, August 21, 1999
In response to a spate of articles in the British media alleging that censorship has banned more than 90 books in Egypt, Minister of Information Safwat El-Sherif has dismissed such reports as "sheer fabrication with no basis of truth." British media charged that this included the book " The Prophet...