Tags - al-Azhar
Rasa reports:
Different problems in the seminary family has caused al-Azhar to both review its law of personal status and provide a practical solution to the problems.
News ID: 444396 Publish Date : 2019/04/20
Egyptian Minister of Endowments:
Rasa – Shaykh Muhammad-Mukhtar Jumu’ah referred to the role of the approximation of the heavenly religions and emphasized that the constructive engagement of the heavenly religions provides the arena for the preservation of mosques and churches.
News ID: 443550 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Raeji:
Rasa – According to a report, Saudi Arabia has been able to bring the the religious community of Egypt under the strong influence of Wahhabism and suppress any opposition by using scholars at the country’s renowned al-Azhar University over the course of thirty years and at a cost of $86 billion dollars.
News ID: 436616 Publish Date : 2018/02/27
Ayatollah al-Modarresi:
Rasa – Ayatollah al-Modarresi emphasized that Islam welcomes all people around the world and added, “We, as Muslims, need to focus on common beliefs among different tribes and Islamic sects including faith in God Almighty, the Prophet Muhammad, the Holy Quran, as well as Muslim prayers and our common qiblah.”
News ID: 436273 Publish Date : 2018/02/05
Rasa - The Grand Imam of Egypt's al-Azhar Mosque, the country's highest Islamic authority, has canceled a meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence in the wake of an announcement by US President Donald Trump that Washington will recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital.
News ID: 435208 Publish Date : 2017/12/09
Rasa - Secretary general of Egypt’s Al-Azhar Islamic Research Institute called for expansion of preaching activities.
News ID: 434485 Publish Date : 2017/10/30
Rasa - Egypt's al-Azhar issued a statement regarding Kurdish independence referendum, strongly condemning the action, calling it "conspiracy of the colonialists aiming at dividing the Islamic and Arab countries."
News ID: 432911 Publish Date : 2017/10/06
Al Azhar scholars:
Rasa - Al-Azhar scholars and figures supported the stances of the al-Azhar scholar emphasizing that Ahmad Tayeb's letter awakened the world in support of Muslims in Myanmar.
News ID: 432314 Publish Date : 2017/09/12
Rasa - Al-Azhar’s watchdog for combating violence condemns the terrorist attack on the Shiite mosque in Afghanistan calling it a terrorist action “which aims to create a religious and ethnic divide.”
News ID: 431969 Publish Date : 2017/08/26
Rasa - Egypt's Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's foremost religious institution, has set up booths in Cairo metro stations to provide religious edicts to commuters in the latest bid to dispel religious misconceptions and misinterpretations of religious texts seen as fostering extremist militancy in the country, which is targeting mainly security personnel and Copts.
News ID: 431172 Publish Date : 2017/07/23
Rasa – “We’re here to represent al-Azhar in the International Islamic unity conference in Tehran. We must say that al-Azhar still continues on its path of boosting Islamic unity and we hope that current problems regarding this issue will soon be resolved,” said Dr. Ayman Yaqoub.
News ID: 425966 Publish Date : 2016/12/22
Head of al-Azhar’s Islamic Research Centre:
Rasa – Shaykh Muhiyiddin Afifi said, “No Muslim is able to survive Salafis’ Takfirism since they excommunicate every Muslim group and sect, they call anyone other than themselves infidels whereas they are the ones who created most misgivings in Islam.”
News ID: 424411 Publish Date : 2016/10/19
Rasa - Saudi clerics have reacted angrily to recent remarks by Egyptian Grand Imam of al-Azhar , Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, who excluded Salafists from Sunnis during a religious conference in Chechnya, Russia.
News ID: 423246 Publish Date : 2016/09/05
Shaykh Ahmad Karimah:
Rasa – Shaykh Ahmad Karimah, a prominent scholar al-Azhar University, said, “My dream is the unity between Shi’a and Sunni Muslims.”
News ID: 423047 Publish Date : 2016/08/29
Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi:
Rasa – Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi stressed that Islam is a religion of peace that favours peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims who are not at war with Islam.
News ID: 422686 Publish Date : 2016/08/13
Rasa – Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi has welcomed a call by the Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque, Egypt’s top Muslim authority, for a unity meeting of leading Sunni and Shi’a scholars.
News ID: 422636 Publish Date : 2016/08/02
Grand Imam of al-Azhar:
Rasa – Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib said atheists developed their opinions in the ۱۸th century with some degree of politeness and respect toward those who believe in God but contemporary atheists have declared war against all religions, especially Islam.
News ID: 422465 Publish Date : 2016/06/18
Senior al-Azhar Scholar:
Rasa – Shaykh Nadi al-Badri has sent a letter to the Holy Shrine of Husayn in which he condemned Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Karbala and expressed sympathy with the Iraqi people.
News ID: 422450 Publish Date : 2016/06/13
Rasa – A female student in Egypt asked to display how she prays to prove she is not Shi’a
News ID: 422316 Publish Date : 2016/05/07
Rasa – The Grand Imam of al-Azhar called for a dialogue between divine religions in an attempt to fight against religious extremism and added that the behaviour of a minor extremist group should not be generalized for all of Islam.
News ID: 4156 Publish Date : 2016/04/12