Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
Dr. Ahmad
al-Tayyib, chancellor of the Azhar University and former Muftī of Egypt,
expressed his
anxiety about what is going on with fatwá’s in an interview with Dr. Durrīyah
Sharaf al-
Dīn. He stressed the superficiality of some Muslims nowadays and the compelling need to move from
appearance...
Date of source: Friday, November 24, 2006
The author records some misunderstandings of a
hādīth that
calls for reproduction, and sees that the real development in the
religious address requires a process of
qualifying mosque preachers.
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2006
The author shows the importance of religious renewal, differences with Europe and the reasons for
this.
Date of source: Monday, November 20, 2006
In the light of al-Ghad’s
publication of the
"offensive" supplement which attacked the Prophet Muhammad’s companions and wife, the author of
the
article stresses the need for a consistent application of the law which criminalizes insulting religions.
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Dr. Husām ‘Afānah, a professor of the fundamentals of fiqh, responds to a question about whether a female student is religiously permitted to remove her Ḥijāb to abide by the regulations of her school.
Date of source: Monday, November 20, 2006
The author of the article, Nafīsah ‘Abd al-Fattāh, lashes out at Farūq Husnī, the Egyptian minister of culture, over his anti- Ḥijāb statements in which he described the Ḥijāb as a regressive trend in Egypt.
Date of source:
The Egyptian press exposed religious authorities’ and intellectuals’ points of view regarding the violent confrontations between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces; in his interview with al-Musawwar, the Shaykh of the Azhar condemned the Israeli trespassing of al-Aqsá mosque....
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
Many hadīth were falsified over time. Islam
is a religion
that needs a renaissance to reveal its true image.
Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
A supplement published by the mouthpiece of the Ghad
Party, al-Ghad newspaper,
entitled "The worst 10 figure in Islamic history," has provoked strong
public reaction and led Islamic lawyer,
Mamdūh Ismā‘īl, to sue the newspaper. The
list of names included some of the
prophet’s companions and ‘...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Muslims and
Christian put the Virgin Mary in the highest rank among women. Many Qur’
ānic verses and
hadīth refer to this fact.