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Date of source: Monday, January 20, 2003
The fatwa of the Islamic Research Institute that permits bank interest faces disapproval by many international Islamic institutes. Scholars who attended the 14th Islamic Fiqh Conference disapproved of it and stated the necessity of its revision.
9. The Sheikh of the Azhar denies omitting verses related to the Jews from the educational curricula
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar denies that Qur’anic Jew-related verses have been omitted from the educational curricula of the Azhar. He stresses that developing the Azhar curricula has nothing to do with the subjects related to legal sciences and that it is a change in the form and way of teaching and...
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar approves that women can be judges, muftis and members of the Islamic Research Institute. He stressed that cloning human beings is impermissible. He believes that God may have given Amr Khaled the gift of preaching or perhaps people are impressed by his new way of addressing...
Date of source: Friday, March 23, 2007
In al-Musawwar magazine’sinterview with the grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Sayyid Muhammad Ṭanṭāwī, Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī expressed his opinion and attitude on all the issues on the Arab and Islamic scenes.
Date of source: Monday, September 19, 2005
A recent fatwa issued by the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, on the normalization of relations with Israel, has triggered heated debate among Muslim scholars.
Date of source: Sunday, August 28, 2005
Four men are standing at the edge of an era. Each is preparing himself for his eighth decade. On September 7, the day set for the presidential elections, they will all find themselves facing a new world with which they are not ready to engage.
Date of source: Sunday, August 28, 2005
The fatwas of the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, have always created controversy. In an interview with al-‘Arabī, Dr. Tantāwī hints that he has not read all the presidential candidates’ electoral programs - yet declares the Azhar’s full support of President Mubārak.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Shaykh Muhammad Sayyīd Tantāwī, the Grand Imām of the Azhar, has taken a number of perplexing decisions, supporting the French government in its war on the hijāb [Muslim female headscarf], and allowing the Israeli Rabbi Lau to enter the great religious institution the Azhar. When will the imām get...
Date of source: Friday, July 29, 2005
When the Muftī was asked his opinion about the possibility of the Grand Imām and the Muftī being elected, he did not reject the idea outright. However, he contradicted himself by suggesting that the process of choice is against Islamic shoura [consultation, similar to the modern concept of free...
Date of source: Saturday, July 30, 2005 to Friday, August 5, 2005
In March 1996, the courts rejected a case filed against the appointment of Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī as Grand Imām and President of the Islamic Research Academy . This raised the question: what do people want from the Grand Imām and why are there such struggles over this role?
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.