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Following the presidential decree that appointed Dr. Ali Goma?a as the new mufti of Egypt, succeeding Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayyeb who takes over as rector of the Azhar University, succeeding Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashim, many papers interviewed the two men and gave short backgrounds about each of them. In these...
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
In his second article, Dr. al-Ṭayyīb explains that Islām respects the freedom of creed of non-Muslims and that the Islamic Sharī‘ah never obliges a woman to convert to Islam when marrying a Muslim. The Pact of the Christians of Najrān is a collection of obligatory Islamic rules for treating non-...
Date of source: Sunday, December 24, 2006
It is high time to relate the Crusades to Christianity. Rev.
Rif‘at responds to Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib’s article in al-Ahrām where he defends
Islam by
attacking Christianity and the Bible.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Photos of the military-style parade staged by the Muslim Brotherhood at al-Azhar University raised alarm in the Egyptian press that the Muslim Brotherhood was forming a militia.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
Six Muslim Brotherhood students were dismissed for forming a students union parallel to the official one at the Azhar University. Consequently, vandals from the group’s students broke into the university building and blockaded the chancellor’s bureau.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
A group of Azhar scholars declare their opinions on the Azhar
researcher’s thesis
that deemed Rose al-Yūsuf Kāfir. All scholars denounced the
Takfīr; however some
approved the negative stance on the periodical.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
The review depicts the corrupted atmosphere of the ManūfīyahBranch of the AzharUniversity, namely the Faculty of Usūl al-Dīn [Fundamentals of Religion] where the Takfīr thesis against Rose al-Yūsuf was recently discussed. The review also states Ahmad al-Tayyib’s opinion on the matter.
Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2006
In the second emission of the interview with Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, the former Muftīī of Egypt discusses the Ḥijāb and Niqāb referring that there are far much serious issues that Muslims need to be occupied with instead. He refers to some foreign powers that try to attract Egypt Muslims by their...
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2006
Following the mixed public reaction to the recent statements made by the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārūq Husnī, on the Ḥijāb, the People’s Assembly’s committees for Religious Affairs and Culture and Media held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue. In an attempt to...
Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2006
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, the president of the
Azhar University, blames the
eruption of conflict in many parts of the world and the
development of the crusades as holy wars on the Catholic
Church’s reading of the Holy Bible.
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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.