Date of source: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
On a program screened on Egyptian TV, Shaykh Khālid al-Jindī has threatened to slaughter the author for opposing his controversial fatwás.
Date of source: Monday, April 14, 2008
A Palestinian shaykh from the city of Khān Yūnus has issued a fatwá calling for Egyptian troops on the Egypt-Gaza border to be killed if they resist any Palestinian overthrow of the border fence.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Shaykh Yūsuf Al Qaradāwī has sparked controversy by issuing a fatwá this week allowing Muslims to consume tiny amounts of alcohol.
Date of source: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī rules that demonstrations and strikes are religiously prohibited and nonsense.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The controversial court ruling that was issued recently is still creating heated discussions in Coptic and judicial milieus. While some think it is binding and necessary, religious sources reject it because it is a violation of the Biblical teaching.
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Dr. Zaynab Radwān, the deputy speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly’s controversial argument about women issues under Sharī‘ah is still creating heated discussions in the lay and religious milieus in Egypt. The following lines shed light on the different arguments.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Dr. Jibrā’īl sheds light on what he considers to be a violation of freedom of creed in Egypt and argues that in spite of the several legislations and constitutional texts that confirm the freedom of creed and principles of citizenship, the reality is still far removed from the aspiration of...
Date of source: Friday, March 28, 2008
Lawyer Nabīh al-Wahsh calls for an urgent trial against Muslim thinker Jamāl al-Bannā. He filed a claim to the attorney general and called into question al-Bannā’s mental state.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Muhammad ‘Abd al-Rahmān reports on the increasing number of Islamic satellite channels, believing they seek money and fame rather than the genuine da‘wah of Islam.
Date of source: Friday, March 14, 2008
Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, the minister of endowments and head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, announced in a press conference that prominent scholars and political figures from different Islamic countries are expected to attend the annual conference of the council, in addition to 106...
Date of source: Saturday, March 15, 2008
Ayman Hassūnah reports on the statements of Saudi Journalist ‘Abd Allāh Bin Bijād al-‘Utaybī who belittled a fatwá issued by the Saudi Shaykh cAbd al-Rahmān Bin Nāsir al-Barāk deeming him an apostate.
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2008
The anarchy in issuing fatwás threatens religion as well as society. The unqualified people who are issuing fatwás nowadays are abusing religion by making it their business.
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2008
Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hamīd, interviewed Amal Sulaymān ‘Afīfī, the first female ma’dhūn in Egypt and the entire Islamic world, about her new post.
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2008
Muhammad Hassān, one of the most popular Muslim preachers not only in Egypt but all over the Islamic world, spoke to al-Maydān about a number of important issues.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Ibrāhīm al-Qaradāwī discusses a recent fatwá by the muftī of Egypt, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, about the religious permissibility of keeping house rents the same.
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2008
The article reports on the reprint of an offensive caricature of the Prophet Muhammad by many Danish and European newspapers that was made just one day after a plot to murder of its cartoonist was foiled.
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2008
The article shows an interview conducted with prominent Islamic Dā‘iyah cAmr Khālid on his opinion about a number of social issues in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2008
The sexual life of the Prophet Muhammad is a subject of heated debate. A woman "dared" to write about the exaggerations in al-Bukhārī’s hadīths and was accused of offending Islam. Salafīs call for her death.
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2008
Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī describes the Bahā’īs as murtadds who should be imprisoned.
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2008 to Friday, February 22, 2008
The conservative cleric Yūsuf al-Badrī has requested that the Islamic Dā‘iyah Su‘ād Sālih publicly repent over three fatwás concerning her stances toward artists, as well as her rejection of divorce via SMS.
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Although the Azhar has refused to acknowledge the Bahā’ī faith in Egypt, a recent court verdict has allowed Bahā’īs to put a ‘dash’ in the religion data box of identity cards.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2008
Islam is the target of Western and Zionists’ attacks. Muslims need to unite to defend their religion and any inter-religious dialogue is bound to avowing Islam as a heavenly religion.
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
The Azhar recently released a fatwá that calls for tough penalties against people who convert to Islam and then revert back to their original religion. Opinions are divided as to what effect this fatwá could have on Egyptian society.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2008 to Friday, February 8, 2008
The author criticizes the phenomenon of fundamentalist shaykhs who insist on depicting Islam as a horrifying religion by focusing on hadīths that depict the torture of the tomb after death and link piety with superficial practices and appearances.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Drs. Hulsman discusses a number of articles that deal with a recent European Parliamentary resolution, highlighting the condition of human rights in Egypt, and the subsequent media uproar that followed in the Egyptian press. He further points to a number of articles that refer to the condition of...
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2008
A documentary entitled, ‘The State of Malta’s Knights’ broadcast on Al-Jazeerah News satellite channel uncovered an Italian Christian organization that is intellectually affiliated to the Knights Templar and suspected of being tied to the CIA and involved in the current war in Iraq.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Abū al-Islām Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh sows sedition by writing outrageous articles and making comments that attack Christianity. His arguments are not based on logical or authentic sources, and should be officially investigated.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Tāriq Abū al-‘Aynayn responds to an article published in al-Hayāt on January 3, 2008, authored by the Egyptian researcher ‘Amr Hamzāwī, entitled, ‘Transformation in state-society relations in Egypt, whereto?’
Date of source: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, the grand imām of the Azhar, works hard to gain the regime’s appreciation and incurs many Azhar scholars and shaykh’s enmity because of his stances toward different issues.
Date of source: Friday, December 21, 2007
The authors discuss the issue of unifying the Adhān, whether it is a legitimate step or it contradicts Islamic Sharī‘ah. They quote the opinions of Muslim scholars on the issue.
Date of source: Friday, January 4, 2008
The author, Maj. Gen. Hilmī Muhammad Yūsuf, provides some notes on four different axes that contribute to the sectarian atmosphere in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Ahmad Murād reports on the statements of the prominent Muslim scholar Dr. Shaykh Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī, in which he called on Muslims to renew their fiqh in order to abide by global changes to avoid clashes with world cultures.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The article is a response to questions received by AWR in 2003 from different Western churches, Christian organizations, Christian leaders and Human Rights Watch, based on material from Western sources and interviews with a few western missionaries then living in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, December 10, 2007
TV presenter Basmah Wahbá stated that the car accident she was involved in a few months ago has nothing to do with her decision to stop wearing the Ḥijāb or her controversial religious programs on the Islamic Iqra’ TV satellite channel.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The article reports on the spread of Niqāb-clad women in society.
Date of source: Thursday, November 29, 2007
Samīr Marqus discusses the social reality in Egypt, the Coptic file, citizenship and the laws and rulings issued regarding building churches in Egypt at the present time.
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2007 to Friday, December 7, 2007
The author, Asmā’ Nas...
Date of source: Thursday, November 29, 2007
The Azhar Scholars Front has declared a trend of responding to Shaykh of the Azhar’s most controversial Fatwás.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
The article is based on an interview with the Islamic preacher Dr. Ṣafwat Ḥijāzī on the role played by religious TV satellite channels on spreading a so-called status of fatwá chaos.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The author Ṣalāh al-Dīn Ḥāfiz criticizes the Egyptian regime of misusing religious institutions, whether Islamic or Christian, in order to achieve political gains, warning of the harmful consequences of such policies.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
al-Bannā discusses three issues in Egypt today; namely, torture, Fatwás, and the announcement of a nuclear project.
Date of source: Saturday, November 24, 2007
Hibah al-Marmá reports on the opinions of Muslim scholars on the Fatwá that Muslims are forbidden to marry Israelis under the pretext that Israel is in a state of enmity with Arabs and Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, November 24, 2007 to Friday, November 30, 2007
A group of journalists from Rose al-Yūsuf magazine met with Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, Muftī of Egypt, and discussed a number of issues of concern for Muslims in particular and Egyptians in general.
Date of source: Saturday, November 24, 2007
In the article, a parliamentary member has launched an inquiry into the Prime ministry for not curbing what he described as chaos of Fatwás on satellite channels as well as in state religious institutions.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The following text presents a number of the most popular Islamic Dā‘iyahs in the modern time.
Date of source: Monday, November 19, 2007
The article reviews a book entitled, ‘Thalāth Fatāwá Muhimah’ [three important Ffatwás] issued by the Saudi Scientific Research and Fatwá Department. It contains three Fatwá that have considered non-Muslims as Kāfirs and called for wiping out churches and synagogues in Islamic countries.
Date of source: Monday, November 19, 2007
The press review detects the ongoing discussions in Egyptian press on the chaos of Fatwás, especially the reactions to the recent Fatwá of the Egyptian Muftī Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah who refused to consider the Egyptian young men who drowned on the Italian cost to be martyrs.
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2007 to Friday, November 23, 2007
For the second consecutive week, Rose al-Yūsuf continues its campaign against the phenomenon of Niqāb-clad nurses in governmental hospitals. The magazine highlighted the stance of the Egyptian minister of health toward the issue.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The following lines summarize an interview with Shaykh ‘Umar al-Dīb in which he discusses various current issues. He also announced a possible meeting between the Azhar and the Vatican.
Date of source: Monday, November 19, 2007
In the article, Azhar scholars have confirmed a Fatwá of Shaykh Farahāt al-Munajjī that a Muslim man is prohibited to get married to a Jewish woman.
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2008
Fahmī Huwaydī argued that some people exaggerate the significance of a supposed religious state.
Al-Jumhūrīyah claimed that “The Vatican accepts dialogue with Muslims provided that they stop believing that the Qur’ān is a divine book.”
Critique on SawṬ al-Ummah claiming Samuel Mashriqī, head of...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2007
‘Ādil al
-Darjalī reported on the statements of the lawyer of Islamic groups Muntaṣir al-Zayyāt about Islamists
using Fatwás permitting the killing of civilians to justify their violent deeds.
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Muftī of Egypt faced a storm of criticism following his ’controversial’ remarks about the Egyptian youths who died on the Italian shores while trying to cross the border illegally in search of a better life, in which he condemned their illegal acts and refused to consider them martyrs.
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2007
Charles
Fū’ād al-Misrī interviewed Dr. Aḥmad Subḥī Manṣūr, head of the Qur’ānists group, on his
life and activities in the U.S. as well as his some decade-old conflict with the Azhar.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2007
Muḥammad
Khalīl reports on the repercussions to a recent Fatwá prohibiting Muslim men from marrying Jewish
women residing in Israel.
Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2007
Fahmī Huwaydī criticizes the use of religion to achieve certain political goals.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The grand Imām of the Azhar, Dr. Muḥammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī calls for dialogue in discussing and criticizing Fatwás, rejecting the insult and attack method used by some Shaykhs to respond to the controversial Fatwás that they do not like.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The Azhar Scholars’ Front has formed a committee to discuss the contradictions implied in the Fatwás of the grand Imām Shaykh Muh...
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2007
Angry reactions continue to be heard in intellectual circles regarding press freedom. The developments in the crisis of the 80-lash Fatwá issued by the grand imām of the Azhar, calls to abolish imprisonment in publishing-related cases, and the future of press in Egypt are the main subjects...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The article deals with the danger of "globalizing" Fatwás. A group of Muslim scholars from outside the Arab world highlight the effect of issuing general Fatwás on Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries. The author cites more than one Muslim scholar who stress that Fatwás should be specific to...