Date of source: Monday, December 6, 2010
Azhar Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib recently received a visit from Southern Iraqi Islamic scholar Shaykh Muhammad Nāqil al-Nāsirī.
The two discussed the importance of national unity in Iraq in the face of the country’s new developments. Shaykh al-Nāsirī praised the Azhar for being a significant and...
Date of source: Monday, December 6, 2010
The Ministry of Endowments is set to embark on its annual new Hijrī year’s eve celebrations tomorrow at the Nūr Mosque in ‘Abbāsiyyah.
Cairo Governor Dr. Mahmūd ‘Abd al-‘Azīm, Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, Endowments Minister Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, Grand Muftī Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, as well...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Headline: Research Academy Considers Stiffening Penalty to Three Years in Prison for Any Party that Prints Mushaf [original Qur’ānic text, without exegesis or human explanation] with Mistakes
Source: al-Dustūr
Page: 3
Author: Wā’il Fāyiz
Keywords: Mushaf
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Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Discussing the issue of remarriage for divorcees, Coptic scholar Dr. Nabīl Lūqā Bibāwī praises Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III for sticking with what he sees as verses that allow divorce only in cases of adultery.
He also thanks Egyptian President Husnī Mubārak for admitting a draft law for...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 2010
"There is no doubt that bigotry and lack of respect for other's beliefs drove Jean-Marie Le Pen, Director of the National Front in France, to the second round in the presidential elections year 2002." Ayman Nūr writes.
The article then explains that when Le Pen was about to leave his party, he...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Grand Imām, Dr. Ahmad al-Ṭayyib, yesterday received Shaykh Hamzah Aktan, Head of the Supreme Council for Religious Affairs in Turkey, who is currently visiting Egypt.
Among the matters they discussed was the Azhar's call for a meeting of Sunnī scholars in preparation for a dialogue meeting...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Headline: Egypt's Shī‘ah Forbidden from Celebrating ‘Ashūrā’
Publisher: Al-Wafd
Page: 3
Author: Du'ā al-Badī‘
Keywords: Shī‘ah, ‘Ashūrā’
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Headline: 66 Accused in ‘Umrāniyyah Events Released
Publisher: Al-Dustūr
Page: 15
Author: Nadā Hamdī
Keywords: al-‘Umrāniyyah
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Date of source: Friday, December 3, 2010
In a seminar supervised by Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib, the Vice President of the World Association of Azhar Graduates (who organized the seminar), Dr. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Fadīl al-Qawsī said that the Azhar fully supports the citizenship principle and constantly calls for peace, love, and respect of...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The author discusses the personal affairs law and Pope Shenouda III’s response to it. Sharaf states that Pope Shenouda confirms that secularists who presented the law do not represent the majority of Copts and asks them not to interfere in these affairs because they lack religious expertise....
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2010
President Muhammad Husnī Mubārak made a phone call to Pope Shenouda III yesterday, confirming his disapproval of the involvement of Egypt’s name in the recent terrorist acts against a church in Baghdad and of threats made to Copts in Egypt. He said that the government is keen to protect the...