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their Cairo
contacts was Prime Minister Erdogan's comments regarding the grand
imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyib, who is accepted as the
highest ethical and religious authority ... prevent a civil war,"
and how they perceived Erdogan's remarks about the Al-Azhar sheikh as
an insult that requires an apology.
In an Aug. 25 speech delivered ... command, Sir.' I was saddened when I saw the sheikh of Al-Azhar, one
of the most prominent universities of the world, standing with the coup and
its makers
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2013-09-1635p8,861w
their
Cairo contacts was Prime Minister Erdogan's comments
regarding the grand imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmad al-
Tayyib, who is accepted as the highest ethical and religious
authority ... prevent a civil war," and how they
perceived Erdogan's remarks about the Al-Azhar sheikh as an
insult that requires an apology.
In an Aug. 25 speech delivered ... command, Sir.' I was saddened when I
saw the sheikh of Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent
universities of the world, standing with the coup and its makers
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figure: Hamato was appointed last
year by Mahmoud Abbas to be dean of the Al-Azhar institutes, a system of schools that prepare
students for studies at the Al-Azhar ... Hamato after he appointed him
Dean of the AI-Azhar institutes.
Dean of the Al-Azhar institutes Imad Hamato and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
[WAFA, official PA news agency, March
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that the article be amended with the stipulation that
Egypt's highest Islamic authority Al-Azhar becomes the main reference on
Islamic Sharia laws.
This, however, was fiercely rejected ... assembly's spokesperson Wahid Abdel-Meguid told journalists that
"the idea of making Al-Azhar a supreme reference on Islamic Sharia
matters could be a mixed-blessing weapon especially ... Brotherhood
managed some day to bring Al-Azhar under its control."
Pressure from the Salafists and other Islamist members forced Manal Al-
Taibi, a human rights activist, to withdraw from
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2012-07-2322p7,403w
demanded the Brotherhood approve the establishment of a Coptic
university, along the lines of Al-Azhar University. The Brotherhood
rejected this suggestion on the grounds that establishing such a university ... would nurture sectarianism in Egypt. Moreover, Al-Azhar University has
existed for decades.
However, regarding the issue of Coptic rights, the Muslim Brotherhood
reassured the US by agreeing that
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2012-04-0629p9,160w
publicly (if only verbally) clashed with liberals,
the Coptic Church, the Islamic university of al-Azhar, Salafis, the military,
the media and the judiciary. At this point, the movement seems
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