Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Members at the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy has rejected a Finance-Ministry-proposed bill sectioning the introduction of Islamic financial bonds.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 28, 2017
The relationship between al-Azhar and the Vatican has witnessed several changes during the previous ten years, namely since 2006. Since then, the relationship has experience disagreement, discord, agreement, and finally, rapprochement.
Date of source: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb held an extraordinary meeting of the Islamic Research Academy on Wednesday (February 1) to form a committee that is to select members of the Senior Scholars Panel.
Informed sources told al-Shurūq al-Jadīd newspaper that according to approved selection...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb said that all documents, statements and decisions as well as meetings held at the Azhar headquarters throughout last year was not an attempt to get the top Sunni Muslim establishment to play a political role but rather out of keenness on the nation's...
Date of source: Thursday, January 5, 2012
Meanwhile, the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy approved in a meeting on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, amendments to the law on the Azhar, including the retirement of the Grand Shaykh at the age of 80 or upon his request.
Grand Shaykh Dr. Tayyīb, during the three-hour session, was in favor to have...
Date of source: Friday, May 29, 2015
Women of Egypt: Campaign stigmatizing women who do not wear the hijāb is a dangerous escalation
Hudā Badrān, the President of the General Council for Egyptian Women, condemned the campaign to disgrace women who do not wear the hijāb. The campaign is spreading over social media and is set to take...
Date of source: Thursday, August 14, 2014
Grand imām Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib, Shaykh of al- Azhar, has denounced what is happening in Iraq by having different militias killing innocent people, bomb mosques and committing crimes.
Date of source: Thursday, September 20, 2012
The Holy Azhar denounced republishing the cartoons dishonoring Prophet Muhammad by the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Date of source: Monday, September 17, 2012
Members of the Egyptian Family House, headed by the Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, issued a statement refusing the film dishonoring Prophet Muhammad. The statement included leaders of the three main Christian denominations in Egypt.
They statement continues that the film angered Muslims...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, warned about a conspiracy against Egypt the targets its unity, security, and stability through tampering with the nation's fabric (Muslims and Christians). Shaykh al-Tayīb added that the migration of some Christians to the West must not be...