Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayyeb said Monday Azhar's role does not end at Egypt's borders, for as the world's leading seat of learning on Sunni Islam, it is keen on continuing to offer its services to all Arabs and Muslims around the globe.
El-Tayyeb, who received Monday former Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora, added Al-Azhar is attentive to what is going on in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and will do its utmost to confront deviant and abnormal thought with full force.
The meeting dealt with cooperation with Lebanon, confronting extremism and terrorism, the tense Sunni-Shia relations, and Muslim-Christian relations.