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19. It is none of my business!
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
The following lines review an interview with the Azhar Shaykh Dr. Sayyid Tantāwī in which the Shaykh expresses his complete ignorance of the Takfīr of Rose al-Yūsuf, and asks his interviewer to refer to other people or claim a file against the person.
7. Comments of religious authorities and intellectuals concerning the recent violent incidents in the National Palestinian Authority and the status of Jerusalem
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The Egyptian press exposed religious authorities’ and intellectuals’ points of view regarding the violent confrontations between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces; in his interview with al-Musawwar, the Shaykh of the Azhar condemned the Israeli trespassing of al-Aqsá mosque....
6. Interviews with the Shaykh of the Azhar
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The three weekly publications ran simultaneous interviews with the Sheikh of the Azhar, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, who was angry about the accusation of being away during the strongest ever controversy in the Egyptian society, which was about the novel "A Banquet for seaweed."
44. Salim al-‘Awa: the shaykh of al-Azhar is not suited to writing fatwás and does not know “the allowed and the forbidden”
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Salīm al-‘Awa criticizes the abilities of the Shaykh of al-Azhar in drawing up fatwás, since he is not a specialist in Islamic jurisprudence.
2. Jewish and Christian missions compete to eliminate Islam in Africa, says Djibouti minister
Date of source: Thursday, August 17, 2006
The Djibouti minister of Islamic affairs, Dr. Mogueh Dirir, said in this interview with al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī newspaper that Jewish and Christian missionary campaigns were targeting many parts in the African continent in the absence of significant Muslim activities and indifference about the da‘...
8. The Azhar’s role in the Muslim world is not fading away, says imam
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Shaykh Tantāwī of the Azhar denied in an interview that the top Sunni Muslim institution is incapable of fulfilling its role, indicating that the Azhar is no longer sending a good number of teachers to Arab and Islamic countries purely for economic reasons.
31. The Islamization of Egypt over the past few decades, Egyptian nationalism and patriotism have receded, leaving space for Pan-Islamism. The real victims of the drastic transformation are undoubtedly the Copts who have been made to endure a de-facto dhi
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
A controversial article on the growing Islamization of Egypt and the effect this has on the Coptic community.
7. Islam respects freedom of opinion, expression, rejects irresponsible freedom that insults religious beliefs
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2006
Views in the Muslim world have differed over the proper reaction to the controversial Danish cartoons. However, most Muslim scholars have stressed the need for drawing clear lines between freedom of expression and irresponsible freedom that insults religious beliefs.
18. Modernizing the religious discourse is a duty, says the Grand Imam of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi
Date of source: Sunday, November 16, 2003
The article is an interview with the Sheikh of the Azhar. The interview focuses on the renewal of the Islamic religious discourse, its rules, mechanisms and whether there are adequate capabilities to carry out that task or not.
17. Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Imam of the Azhar: Islam is a faith and a state [political system], I say it to secularists and I will adhere to it until my death
Date of source: Thursday, August 14, 2003
The article is an interview with the Sheikh of the Azhar. He comments on the Arab Culture Conference, secularism, martyrdom operations, the role of the Islamic Research Institute in supervising religious books and the Azhar missions to Europe and the US.

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