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Al-Bannā supports Dr Zaynab Radwān’s calls for equality between men and women in testimony and for non-Muslims wives to inherit from their Muslim husbands.
Dr. Zaynab Radwān has stated that most Qur’ānic references to witnesses do not make any reference to gender. Some references fully equate the testimony of males and females.
The author interviews the under-secretary of the People’s Assembly Dr. Zaynab Radwān on her recent call for a legislation to make the testimony of men and women equal.
Dr. Zaynab Radwān, the deputy speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly created heated debates in Egypt when she stated that a woman’s testimony in court is equal to that of man and that the non-Muslim wife of a Muslim husband should enjoy the same rights to inherit from her husband. The...
Islamic scholars of the Azhar have rejected a fatwá issued by a key Islamic leader in Sudan, Dr. Hasan al-Turābī, in which he denies the hadd of stoning a male adulterer, believing it to be a Jewish rather than an Islamic order. He also recognises the testimony made by an educated woman as equal to...
The author reviews the discussions in a symposium hosted by a group of senior Muslim scholars about the fatwas given recently by Hasan al- Turābī which sparked shock waves in the Muslim world as they contradicted firmly-established beliefs about the hijāb and the impermissibility of...
Dr. Elwi Amin, professor at the Azhar University, calls for equality between men and women in testimony. He argues that the Qur´anic verse saying “And get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses” [Sura 2: 282...
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