Sheikh Ali Khalil-General Secretary of Senior Scholars in Al-Azhar stated that the Senior Emam / Ahmed Al Taib directed to launch Al Azhar competition entitled ”International Research Competition ” coinciding with the celebrations of the Prophet’ Birthday on the condition that honoring of winners would be in 7 Ramadan which is the day of establishing Al Azhar.
First: the faith and modern thought and the topic would be about intellectual assets for extremist groups and the role of the educational operations in confronting it.
Second: Islamic Fiqh and its assets and the effecting of the technical development on the personal matters issues.
Third: Interpretation, Modern Quran Science, and the Interpretation of Inspirations Contexts.
Fourth: Al Hadith and its sciences ,and doubting movements in Al Sunnah Al Nabwia.
Fifth: Arabic Language and its arts, the steps of renewal in rhetoric heritage and literature criticism.
General Conditions of Competition
Classical Arabic Language is the approval language for the submitted research in the branches of the competition whether the research inside or outside Egypt, the research must submit only one research and it’s not problem the participation of one more researchers in preparing the research, the research must characterize with the depth and seriousness and take into consideration the assets of the scientific curriculum and its approval traditions.
First award :100000 pounds.
Second award: 50000 pounds.
Third award:25000 pounds.
For receiving researches at the end of Rajab month 1442, and the deadline of receiving the research summaries is the end of Rabi Al Akhar 1442.