Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2017
Q: Do you want Copts to enter al-Azhar University?
Yes, as a form of reform. In fact, the President asked Shaykh al-Azhar to reform religious discourse and we trust in the ability of Shaykh al-Azhar to do so.
Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2017
A delegation from Al-Azhar visited the village of al-Muhayidāt, south of Luxor, on Sunday, led by Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayib, Shaykh of al-Azhar, and in coordination with the Islamic Research Academy in Luxor.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2017
This was the title of the banners that were to be seen all over as ‘pilgrims’ arrived to the Air Defense Stadium for the Mass with Pope Francis.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2017
Yesterday's attacks on two Coptic Orthodox Churches were heartbreaking. The boards of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) in Egypt and the Arab-West Foundation (AWF) in the Netherlands call the terrorist attacks on Coptic Orthodox Churches in Tanta [Ṭānṭā] and Alexandria [Al-Iskandariyyah...
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: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, said there should be no concerns over the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafīs in power, adding the Egyptian people from now on would be watching everyone in public office and all political parties in all their different orientations.
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Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
The enactment of the law on the Azhar, known in the media as the Azhar independence law, was severely criticized as it was approved and published in the official gazette a few days before the People's Assembly session.
'Abd al-Ghanī Hindī, the leader of the people's movement for the independence...
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb congratulated members of the Azhar's Islamic Research Academy on the enactment of the new law regulating the top Sunni Muslim establishment's affairs, known in the media as the Azhar independence law, issued hours before the People's Assembly session...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb sent a cable on Tuesday (January 24) to Dr. Muhammad Sa’d al-Katātnī congratulating him over his election as speaker of the first parliament after the January 25, 2011 revolution.
Dr. Tayyīb expressed hope the new parliament would achieve prosperity...
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb called on the members of the Egyptian parliament, the first after the January 25, 2011 revolution that unseated President Husnī Mubārak, to keep in mind the impoverished, downtrodden and marginalized citizens and the people who reside in graveyards and...