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The 25th Session of International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) in Jeddah will begin tomorrow under the auspices of Prince Khālid bin Fayṣal, Adviser to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and Governor of Makkah Province. Also included are the President of the Academy, Dr. Ṣāliḥ bin ʿAbd Allah bin...
Egyptian Columnist Saḥar al-Jaʿārah writes this week: It is not surprising that from time to time there are calls for "polygamy". However, polygamy is no solution to the spinsterhood crisis; it is in fact a consecration of the idea of , al-Misyār marriage, literally, the traveler’s marriage,  which...
Khālid al-Jandī, a preacher, attacked Egyptian film director Aynās al-Daghaydī, for her assertion that sex is a personal freedom even when it occurs outside of marriage. He went on to allege that there is an organized conspiracy in society claiming that drinking is permitted in Islam and attacking...
Grand Sheikh of the Azhar Ahmad al-Tayīb said no one can impose on Muslims anything that runs counter to their faith, adding the issue of homosexuality should not fall within the concepts of freedom.
 With the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak today, pro-democracy protestors, Muslims and Christians, are celebrating in the streets of Cairo and other cities around the country. Power was handed over to the Egyptian military.   According to Open Doors, a Christian organization founded...
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent comments about the application of Sharī‘ah in Britain have created a massive wave of responses. Here one author who is a Muslim women discusses how Sharī‘ah still governs women and children in family law.
Europe’s rejection to Turkey’s entry into the European Union because of its Islamic values.
The author reviews the opinion of a committee of the Azhar to ban the publicizing of adultery-related cases amidst outcry from media professors who assert that such a ban has not prevented adultery in other countries.
The article deals with the ideologies of a group of Muslims who call themselves "the Qur’ānites" who believe only in the Qur’ān and deny the sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] altogether.
Iran is an Islamic Republic governed by the Islamic sharī‘a. Yet a quick look at the history of the state makes it clear that many cruel practices are contradictory to the Holy Qur’ān and generally accepted hadīths.

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