Worldbulletin The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, on Sunday called for organizing a conference on reconciliation among the different sects of the Islamic religion. During a counterterrorism conference in Saudi Arabia, the top...

  Deputy of Al – Azhar, Dr. Abbas Schuman received Monday 23/2/2015 prof Khalid Mohammed Rajab, the official spokesman of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation To prepare for the signing of a protocol of cooperation between...

The Grand Imam Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, Sheikh Al-Azhar received Dr. Faisal bin Muaammar, Advisor of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and Secretary General of the King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz International Centre for Interreligious and...

Arab World news MAKKAH — The head of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious seat of learning, called on Sunday for education reform in Muslim countries in an effort to contain the spread of religious...

BBC The Grand Imam of Egypt's top Islamic institution has called for a radical reform of religious teaching to tackle the spread of Islamic extremism. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Cairo's al-Azhar University said that a historical...

Prepared by: Arabic Unit, AOCE - Translated by: Mahmoud Kamel (Researcher, English Unit, AOCE)

By: Noura Mahmoud Abu Ibrahim (Researcher, English Unit, AOCE)

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