Routinely required to lend religious legitimacy to contentious state policies, al-Azhar's moral authority has been under pressure since its nationalization in 1961. This article outlines how Shaykh al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyib's recent alliance with President ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi has, however, exposed al-Azhar's moral authority to unprecedented risks. This is for three reasons. First, the tactics used by al-Sisi's government to quell the Muslim Brotherhood have been more extreme than those used by previous regimes. Second, the al-Azhari establishment's defence of these violent tactics has been more unqualified than in the past. Third, current state-led reforms of al-Azhar's curriculum are more controversial than prior efforts along these lines. As I show, these recent developments are not a complete break from the past; rather, they are a natural outcome of incremental shifts that have been occurring within al-Azhar since its nationalization over fifty years ago.

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在转折点？爱资哈尔日益严重的道德权威危机

自 1961 年国有化以来，爱资哈尔的道德权威经常被要求赋予有争议的国家政策以宗教合法性，因此一直面临压力。本文概述了谢赫·爱资哈尔·艾哈迈德·塔伊布最近与总统阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·塞西的联盟如何然而，爱资哈尔的道德权威面临前所未有的风险。这是出于三个原因。首先，塞西政府用来镇压穆斯林兄弟会的策略比以前的政权更极端。其次，爱资扎里建制派对这些暴力手段的辩护比以往更加不合格。第三，当前由国家主导的爱资哈尔课程改革比之前沿着这些方向的努力更具争议性。正如我所展示的，这些最近的发展并非与过去完全不同。