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Date of source: Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Dr. Tàriq Al-Juharì held a conference at the Center for Arab West Understanding. Moreover, he briefly discussed three major points, and then moved to answering the questions. Dr. Al-Juharì focused on three topics: the first one was: the idea of Sufism. The second one: He discussed the current...
Date of source: Saturday, May 10, 2014
Salafīs have refused to implement the decision of the Ministry of Endowments which prohibits preaching of those who are not imāms.
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2018
In accordance with article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution of 1923, Islam is the religion of the State and Arabic is its official language. The principles of Islamic Sharia are the main source of legislation.
For nearly a century, the drafters of the Egyptian constitution persisted in giving the...
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Egypt has been deeply divided between sympathizers
Date of source: Thursday, October 4, 2018
Editor AWR: The Center for Arab-West Understanding had invited Prof. Dr. Ḥassan M. Wajīh Ḥassan to provide a response to a lecture of H.E. Lord George Carey on July 13, 2018. Dr. Wajīh suffered of pain in his spine and was unable to come and for that reason wrote a “response” to a lecture that he...
Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2018
Doctor Muḥammad Shawqī ʿAllām, Egypt’s Grand Mufti of Egypt, has attempted to define the dividing lines in the integrative relationship between religion and the state. In his speech, delivered at a symposium held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Grand Mufti defined the ways in which the Egyptian...
Date of source: Saturday, January 13, 2018
Media presenter and physician Dr. Khālid Muntaṣir said that his new TV program “Yatafakkarūn - contemplative thought aims to respond to an important issue that surges when we, Muslims, find ourselves at odds with “modernity”. He points out that modernity has rules, among them the separation between...
Date of source: Monday, October 23, 2017
On the canal shore, in the city of Ismā`iliyya, to which he moved to escape the capital Cairo and its noise, al-Yawm al-Sabī` interviewed Dr. Khālid Muntaṣṣir, a physician, intellectual and media person. But most importantly, he is a man capable of stirring up controversy in the Egyptian street on...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Researcher Islām Biḥayrī described discussions about reconciliation with the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood as “the crisis of all crises,” from which Egypt and the surrounding region would not recover again. In a long interview with al-Dustūr, Biḥayrī said: the Brotherhood got a proper chance to...
Date of source: Sunday, July 2, 2017
The banned Egyptian preacher of al-Sayeda Nafīsa Mosque in Cairo, 'Abdallah Roshdi wrote on his social networking facebook account: “Secular thought seeks to exclude the religion [of Islam] from the State's legislation.”
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