Mustansiriyah Center for Arab and International Studies

Abstract

Al-Azhar actively participated in the political life in Egypt since the revolution of January 25, 2011 until the year 2019. This philosophy was linked to his deep understanding of the nature of his role and the tasks entrusted to him in that difficult stage that Egypt went through, with the huge events and violent changes that had an impact on society. This necessitated Al-Azhar to be on the front lines of all these challenges, armed with its methodology derived from the Glorious Qur’an and the purified Sunnah of the Prophet, to take everyone’s hand to safety. Neither the courage nor the boldness to stand in the face of everything that is wrong and what he saw intersects with the values ​​of the true Islamic religion, cherishing his independence and his prestige despite the attempts of successive authorities to impose their hegemony on him. And for his guiding, advocacy and educational role, he intersected with the forces of extremism, terrorism and expiation, with the approach they carried that contradicted the essence of what Islam called for of mercy, brotherhood and humanity.