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Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi (centre), the Grand Sheik of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, (right) and Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb, (left) pray on the first day of Eid ul-Fitr, AP
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Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Egyptian Imam of al-Azhar Mosque (Photo: Reuters)
Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam: My Speech Did Not Exclude any Sect at Grozny
Cairo- Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed el-Tayeb reaffirmed the institutionalized rebuttal of the concluding statement made at the Sunni Conference in Grozny, Chechnya in August 2016. The statement viewed controversial exclusion of Muslim sects and clerics. Dr....Caption:
Coalition of 35 Arab and Islamic countries
Al-Azhar for Asharq Al-Awsat: Islamic Military Coalition Unites the Nation
Scholars of jurisprudence, interpretation and Hadith at Al-Azhar University in Egypt provided an Islamic guide to face the terrorist organization, ISIS, intellectually. The scholars specified outlines for this guide including the direct intervention of Arab and...Caption:
Muslim pilgrims circle counterclockwise Islam’s holiest shrine, the Kaaba, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy Muslim city of Mecca late on September 26, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH)
Muslim leaders reject Iran’s “politicization” of Hajj tragedy
Cairo, Brussels and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Muslim leaders around the world have strongly rejected what they called “politicization” of last week’s Hajj tragedy by Iran, which blamed Saudi Arabia—the organizer of the annual Muslim pilgrimage—for the incident that...Caption:
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) holds up a copy of Dabiq, the English language magazine published ISIS, during a hearing on ‘worldwide threats to the homeland’ in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 17, 2014. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)