Date of source: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
The Azhar Shaykh, Ahmad al- Tayyib, received Dr. Khudair al- Khuzā’ī, vice president of Iraq. Khuzā’ī stated that the Islamic ummah agrees that the Azhar is the symbol for moderate thought.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Mahmūd ‘Azab, advisor to the Azhar Shaykh for dialogue affairs, stated that the Azhar stood beside the Egyptian people since the beginning of the revolution.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Religious scholars praised the call of President al- Sīsī to renew the religious discourse.
Date of source: Friday, June 6, 2014
The Azhar Shaykh Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyib met a large number of artists and intellectuals, including the director Khālid Yūssif and poet Jamal Bakhīt, as well as Hussayn Fahmī, and critic Tāriq Shināwī and writer and journalist Sakīnah Fūad.
Date of source: Friday, June 6, 2014
Dr Ahmad al- Tayyib, al- Azhar Shaykh, Eng. Ātif Hilmī, Minsiter of Communications and Information Technology and Dr. Ashraf al- ‘Arabī, Minister of Planning has inaugurated Hall of “al- Azhar Memory Panorama”.
Date of source: Saturday, May 31, 2014
Security Forces in Luxor have successfully prevented an attempt to burn a number of houses belonging to Copts in Mahāmīd village, Armant, Luxor.
Date of source: Monday, August 4, 2014
Al-Azhar’s Supreme Sheikh, Ahmad al-Tayyib, issued a statement yesterday, in which he called for an end to what he referred to as, ‘the Palestinian Holocaust.’
Date of source: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, has recommended a delegation of the Anglican Church from the United States to speak of the return to good morals during their sermons.
The Grand Shaykh discussed the Azhar’s rejection of imposing a certain doctrine through power or through...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Grand Shaykhof the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, demanded that the Iranian President must, in accordance with Islamic sharī'ah and international laws and norms, recognize the rights of the Sunnī community in Iran and acknowledge them as equal citizens (Rāmī Nawwār, Amīrah 'Abd al-Salām, Lu'ay 'Alī and...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Former Deputy Shaykh of the Azhar Mahmūd ‘Āshūr categorically dismissed that the dīyah (blood money) should be offered to the martyrs’ families against their will, adding if the dīyah is accepted without any coercion then there would be nothing wrong with that.
“In premeditated murders, there has...