A man named Abd al-Hamid Kishk, better known as Sheik Kishk, was responsible for recorded sermons that began appearing around 1972.[42] Kishk was a religion student and became a leader of prayer, or imam, in government mosques in 1961, but he was arrested by the government in 1966 based on his suspected involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood.[43] He was released two years later after and continued to preach at the Ministry of Awqaf, a government ministry in charge of religious endowments.[44] Kishk’s sermons became so popular that extra buildings had to be constructed for his Friday sermons, and they began recording his sermons to be publicly aired on the radio in 1972.[45] After about a decade of popularity amongst the Egyptian people, he was arrested again in 1981, and many of his tapes were banned.[46] Kishk was released in 1982, after the assassination of Sadat, and the new regime has given him access to the media yet again.[47]