Members of WAAG international visited Pakistan for the international Seerat Conference hosted by the Ministry of Religious Affairs & Inter-faith Harmony. On Saturday 2 December 2017, a senior delegation of the World Association for Al-Azhar Graduates (WAAG) from Cairo, Egypt, representing the Grand Imam Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, travelled to Pakistan to attend the […]
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An emergency session of the Al-Azhar Supreme Council of Senior Scholars was held earlier today, chaired by the Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, to consider the American decision declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The Council has stated that it categorically rejects the unfair decision of the American administration that has no […]
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Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, denounces President Trump’s decision on Jerusalem and refuses to meet with American Vice President, Mike Pence, later this month. The United Kingdom Branch of the World Association for Al-Azhar Graduates (WAAG UK) rejects the rash statement of the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, in […]
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Al-Azhar Grand Imam to Tony Blair: “The concept of Islamic terrorism is a lie and a fabrication.”
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During a two day visit to Egypt, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the Al-Azhar World Observatory and the head office of WAAG. Earlier the Grand Imam, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, welcomed Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister and the President of the Tony Blair Foundation for […]
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”And who is more unjust than that person who prohibits the name of Allah being mentioned in the mosques of Allah, and strives to destroy them? (Whereas) It was appropriate for them to enter the mosque fearfully. For them there is disgrace in the world, and for them there is a great torment in the […]
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Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar addresses the Third World Forum, holds talks with the Pope and meets the Prime Minister During the first week of November 2017, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Dr Ahmad al-Tayyeb Shaykh al-Azhar, travelled to Italy for some important engagements which included his noteworthy address at the Third World Forum, holding […]
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WAAG UK Vice-President attends an evening with Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyan on ‘Islam in a Globalising World’
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The Vice-President of the UK Branch of the World Association for Al-Azhar Graduates (WAAG UK), Bakhtyar Pirzada al-Azhari, attended an evening with Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah (Forum for Peace, UAE) and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (Zaytuna College, USA), on Thursday 2 November 2017. The evening was titled ‘Islam in a Globalising World’ and was jointly hosted […]
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On Tuesday 17th October 2017, the International Conference for Fatwa titled ‘The Role of Fatwa in Creating a Stable Society” was held in Cairo, Egypt, hosted by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Dr Shawqi Allam. The three-day conference, organised by the General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide, was attended by delegations from 80 countries to […]
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The World Association for Al-Azhar Graduates based at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, calls for a comprehensive and integrated strategy to counter the ideologies and the atrocities of the terrorist group ISIS (Daesh). Al-Azhar emphasises that the actual aim of triggering attacks through the group’s so-called strategy of ‘trampling horses’ to crush people in public […]
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A delegation of British ulema and Imams have attended a training course hosted by the Dar al-Ifta of Egypt. The group comprised of elder and younger British Imams, including Al-Azhar graduates and WAAG UK members, from various towns and cities across the UK and were welcomed by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shaykh Dr Shawqi […]