Representatives of the Azhar body vehemently denied the allegations suggested by deputy chief of the Salafīsts and former member of the Ca which drew up the new Constitution, Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī. The Salafī preacher suggested that the Azhar had approved Article 219, which endorses the provisions of Sharī’ah, in exchange to protect the grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb from dismissal. [Mahmūd 'Anaz and Marwá al-Bashīr, Al-Ahrām, Dec. 25, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic