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Date of source: Friday, October 12, 2018
We now face a complex and contradictory scene; while we have the political will to directly support women, we are also confronted with a flood of extremist fatwās that are aimed at undermining women and their role in society. Generations of young extremists without an identity are being formed as...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
The fundamental traditional Islam spread in Egypt not only among followers of Islamist political movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, but also among the ordinary segments of the population, and after decades of abortions of any attempt to renew the religious discourse.
A year...
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2017 to Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Is the country serious about combating terrorism?
I don't think so, it's like a country whose fiercely fighting its atonement, but the cost of this is paid by Christians, and intellectuals.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2017
The Islamic political groups, the Brotherhood [Muslim Brotherhood] foremost among them, continue using the slogan "Islam is The Solution". These groups have adopted the slogan to appeal to the emotionality of many simple people, who consider it to be the magic key for all the problems faced by the...
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2017
Mūrsī `Atallahwrites in his column this week in Al-Ahrām newspaper:
I do not know the reason for this fabricated fuss about the project of a unified Friday sermon unless some people want to transform the mosque podiums from being platforms for awareness and guidance into bombs and landmines for...
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Background:
Dr. Muḥammad Saʿīd al-ʿAshmāwī (1932 – 7.11.2013) was an Egyptian Supreme Court judge and former head of the Court of State Security. He was a specialist in comparative and Islamic Law at Cairo University and is often described as “one of the most influential liberal Islamic thinkers...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Scholars and legal experts warned from attacking citizens and using violence under the pretext of promoting virtue and preventing vice.
Dr. 'Afāf al-Najār, former Dean of Faculty of Islamic Studies, said, that if these matters were left to the general public then Egypt would soon turn into a jungle...
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 2004
We need to change our religious discourse in order to make it more compatible with the comprehensiveness of Islam. But America, in its current attack on Islam, wants to change Islam. We want to change with Islam and they want to change Islam. America’s problem with Islam is neither Islam’s...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Muslims have many difficulties with modernity perhaps because Muslims believe that they should not achieve anything but should receive the achievements of others. This is a feature of the simple Bedouin life where the Bedouin does not work and waits for the work of nature, like rain or eruption of...
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 2004
Dialogue with a society like the Western society, where there are many orientations, needs a special philosophy in order to reach the targeted audience. Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar said, “We should focus in the meantime on explaining the truth of Islam to the Western world because there are evil forces...
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2003
The article gives the text of an interview that Ali al-Atasi had with Dr. Nasr Hamid Abū Zeid and that was published on the internet. Abū Zeid explains his way of thinking and his research. The paper publishes this interview following the banning of Abū Zeid’s book ?Discourse and Interpretation,”...
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Al-Qahera published three articles commenting on the Arab Culture Conference in Cairo. Al-Liwa al-Islami interviewed three Muslim scholars to comment on the conference.
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The four newspapers comment on the Arab Culture Conference in Cairo. Some articles praise it and others think it is an ?anti-Islam? conference.
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One of the issues that surfaced after September 11 is the issue of "religious discourse" and its importance in showing that Islam is not a religion of violence and terrorism. Articles covered in this press review show what kind of religious discourse is needed today and whether there are Western...
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The Arab Culture Conference in Cairo, which was organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Culture, from the first to the third of July, received a lot of criticism. It is believed to have called for Western intervention and for anti-Islamic ideas. The conference, titled ?...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 12, 2006
A discussion about a conference on human rights, the innovation of religious speeches, the
relationship between religion and the state, the economic progress of non-Arab Muslim countries in Asia, and
problems of applying Islamic laws with regard to marriage, divorce, and inheritance in non-Muslim...
Date of source: Friday, November 24, 2006
The author records some misunderstandings of a
hādīth that
calls for reproduction, and sees that the real development in the
religious address requires a process of
qualifying mosque preachers.
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2006
The author shows the importance of religious renewal, differences with Europe and the reasons for
this.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 21, 2006
‘Abīr Salāh al-
Dīn
discusses a recent fatwá concerning the wife’s right to prevent her husband from
traveling.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Some preachers came out of the blue and gave themselves
the right and authority to
passjudgment against well-known Muslim scholars solely because of the
fact that theydisagreed with
their opinions. The writer condemned these preachers, and their
demands to shed Muslim blood over a disagreement...
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