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Al-Azhar Fatwa Global Center reiterated that the miracle of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj (Night Journey and Ascension to Heaven of the Prophet Muḥammad) are confirmed beyond any point of doubt in Chapters 17 and 53 of the Holy Qurʾān and in verified ḥadīths (the Prophet’s tradition).
Al-Azhar has said that the targeting of innocent displaced people in a school sheltering them, along with others on a coastal road, and the massacre of citizens in Gaza’s al-Shifāʾ Hospital, as well as the killing of convoys of wounded people and the bombing of ambulances, have all put the...
Washington Post  published an article by the Muftī of the Republic Dr. 'Alī Jum'ah  with the title "Prophet Muhammad is ‘the mercy to all worlds’ to Muslims: Egypt’s mufti" on September 18, 2012.
This paper expands upon earlier work published in Arab-West Report by Dutch Arabists Eildert Mulder and Thomas Milo on the contested earliest sources of Islam.1 Mulder and Milo illustrate that critical scholarship has cast doubt on the historic
The Muslim Brotherhood set Egyptian politics ablaze with their decision to nominate their chief financier, Khairat al-Shātir, for the presidency. All political groups recognize the right of the group to do so but many have criticized them harshly, recalling their promise from early in the...
Dutch scholar Johannes Jansen contributed an essay – ‘The Religious Roots of Muslim Violence’ – to a 2011 anthology entitled, ‘Terrorism: Ideology, Law, and Policy’. In it he makes the case that violence and terrorism are part and parcel of the Islamic religion, traceable to its root sources at...
This third and final article on Shaykh Usāmah al-Qūsī focuses on a matter closest to his heart and specialization of study: The sunna of Muhammad, that is, what he said and did outside the recorded testimony of the Qur'ān. Whereas article one provided his life history in pursuit of this knowledge,...
Publisher: Uitgeverij Meinema, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands (2009) Translator: Sandra Heijden Editor: Alexander Wamboldt The preface to Eildert Mulder and Thomas Milo’s 2009 book ’The Contested Sources of Islam’, where the authors introduce the four German revisionist historians whose theories...
Egypt’s State film censors ban a film dealing with the niqāb because it ’defames Islam and state policy’.
The Qur’ānists are not apostates simply because they do not believe in the authenticity of the narrated hadīths.

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