Parliament should be allowed to institute Islamic Sharia law, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said at a meeting with youth groups on Sunday.
“This is up to the members of Parliament to evaluate,” he said.
In recent parliamentary elections, Islamists won the (...)
A delegation of representatives from the various Christian denominations in Egypt visited Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb and Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa on Thursday to convery their best wishes for Eid Al-Adha.
Pope Shenouda III dispatched cables (...)
Ahmed al-Tayyeb, the grand sheikh of Al-Azhar, has renewed his call for the release Omar Abdel Rahman, the Jama'a al-Islamiya leader serving a life sentence in the United States.
At a meeting with US Ambassador Anne Patterson on Tuesday, Tayyeb also (...)
Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb urged world nations to vote in favor of a Palestinian state during the UN General Assembly vote scheduled for Friday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will make a formal request for the recognition of a (...)
Suspicion by the Jedda Astronomy Society regarding the sight of the Eid crescent in Saudi Arabia has raised doubts in several Islamic countries as to whether the holiday was pronounced at the right time.
The society had said that people actually saw (...)
“I was astonished to hear the demonstrators from my office window calling for change and a better future,” said US Ambassador Margaret Scobey, adding that her country did not play a role in the 25 January revolution.
Scobey, who has completed her (...)
The head of Al-Azhar has sought to defend the principle of jihad in Islam under specific circumstances, sharing his views with a group of visiting British parliamentarians.
“Jihad is legitimate in Islam to defend justice,” Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh (...)
Egyptian tycoon and co-founder of the Free Egyptians Party Naguib Sawiris kissed the hand of Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb when he met him on Wednesday. The former asked the latter to protect the Copts and speak on their behalf.
“Kissing the (...)
Hundreds of imams marched to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Sunday, calling for the independence of Al-Azhar and the election of its grand sheikh instead of his appointment by the government.
They want the institution to be financially (...)
Sheikh Hafez Salama, a popular veteran of the October War of 1973, has announced that he will perform the Salat al-Gha'eb, or "prayer for the absent", for Osama bin Laden's soul at al-Nour Mosque in Abbasseya after Friday prayers.
Bin Laden, the (...)
Dozens of imams and Islamic preachers who were expelled by the dissolved State Security Investigations Service under the Mubarak regime staged demonstrations before the Ministry of Religious Endowments on Wednesday, demanding to be reinstated.
They (...)
About 15,000 imams and Islamic preachers held demonstrations on Tuesday, demanding that Al-Azhar be an independent institution, and that its grand sheikh be elected and not appointed.
They also demanded that Al-Azhar retain its international role as (...)
Security forces have arrested two Salafis suspected of demolishing the shrines of revered Sufi figures in the Delta city of Qualiub.
A group of Salafis on Wednesday demolished five shrines in the city, claiming that visiting shrines was an act of (...)
The Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces (SCAF) began sessions on Monday to discuss the Constitutional Declaration that is expected to be announced later this week, following the results of the referendum on constitutional amendments (...)
The Religious Endowments Ministry instructed the Imams of all mosques in Egypt to focus on the prohibition of suicide in Islam during this week's Friday sermon.
In a press statement on Thursday, Minister of Endowments Hamdi Zaqzouq said this week's (...)
Islamic Law states that obedience to people in charge is not an absolute precept but rather one that is tied to their commitment to the teachings of Islam and their ability to preserve the dignity of their people and provide them a decent life, (...)
Cairo University banned students from wearing the niqab when sitting for mid-term exams that started Sunday.
To prevent cheating, the administration gave instructions that all students must show their faces during the exams.
The students have filed (...)
In a statement on Thursday, 60 Muslim scholars issued a religious edict stating that the independence of southern Sudan was in contravention to Islamic Law.
They called for the thwarting of what they described as a “premeditated plan" to split (...)
Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb met with popular Egyptian Muslim televangelist Amr Khaled at the Al-Azhar headquarters to discuss how to renew religious discourse, said official sources from within Al-Azhar.
Dr. Abdel-Halim Aweis, a (...)
Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy on Thursday proposed a new law mandating 15-year jail terms for printing and publishing houses found guilty of making copy mistakes in published versions of the Quran.
Under the proposed law, the transgression (...)
‘“The fatwa [religious edict] that calls for killing ElBaradei was issued by an incompetent man,” said Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, pointing to an earlier edict issued by Mahmoud Amer, a leader of the religious group called Ansar al-Sunna.
Amer said the (...)
Dar al-Ifta, the state body mandated with issuing religious edicts, issued an annual report stating the body issued 465,000 fatwas (religious edicts_ in 2010.
The report also said the grand mufti received 127 death penalties to endorse. The Egyptian (...)
The Egyptian government is reportedly thinking about inviting Iran to participate in a conference on Jerusalem scheduled for February.
Minister of Religious Endowments Hamdy Zaqzouq said on Thursday that Jerusalem was being Judaized by the Israeli (...)
Minister of Religious Endowments and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq issued an order on Wednesday to all the ministry's directorates countrywide to advise Egypt's Imams to use their Friday sermons to encourage citizens to participate in (...)
Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb said on Sunday that the existence of sectarian tension in Egypt amounted to nothing more than "rumors."
"Foreign influences are behind the current tensions between Coptic Christians and Muslims," said the (...)