Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The Azhar asserted that dialogue with British institutions, bodies and the Anglican Church is continuing regardless of the British government’s decision to award Salman Rushdie with a knighthood.
Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2007
Ramadān Abū Ismā‘īl reveals the saddening fact that the Muslim-Christian dialogue has been doomed to fail despite all the efforts exerted.
Date of source: Friday, March 2, 2007
The religious state does not exist in Islām and talking about it will ignite sedition while the idea itself is an illusion and a fabrication.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 21, 2007
In the aftermath of the Azhar militias’ incident, a pressing question was raised: What has education in the Azhar come to? This article attempts to answer this question.
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2007
Shaykh of the Azhar Muḥammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī asserted that he had not yet announced his final approval to visit the Vatican, stating that the decision as to whether to approve or reject the visit requires deliberation and would not be made until the Azhar receives a formal invitation from Pope...
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2007
The Shaykh of the Azhar Muhammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī referred to the possibility of resuming the Azhar-Vatican dialogue that stopped after the Roman Catholic pope’s highly-publicized and controversial lecture on Islām.
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2007
After four months of estrangement between the Azhar and the Vatican, the Vatican Ambassador in Cairo, Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald visited Shaykh ‘Umar al-Dīb, chairman of the Permanent Committee for Inter-religious Dialogue, in his office at the Azhar headquarters.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Committee of al-Azhar for Dialogue with Monotheistic Religions was dissolved due to estimated
shortages of the
committee in facing the recent repeated offenses against Islam. A new committee was
formed.
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
The
article discusses a conference of Muslim-Christian dialogue between the Azhar’s Islamic
Research Academy and
the Episcopal Church in which the participants stressed the importance of cooperation for the
good of both
Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
Prominent Azhar scholars express their views about forcing young girls to wear the khimār.