Date of source: Tuesday, October 19, 1999
Is it true that if a young man obtained a loan from a bank to buy a flat and he paid off the loan and its profits, he would be considered an apostate? This is a fatwa [Islamic ruling] attributed to the Grand Sheik of the Azhar Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi. It was published in the newspaper "Al-Alam...
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 1999
In the Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq summer camp in Alexandria, the Mufti of the Republic attributed society’s psychological ills and vices to the people’s lack of consciousness of their religion. He also underlined the deep-seated cordial relations and national unity between Muslims and Copts in Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2012
Jordan’s Mufti Saeed Abdul Hafeez Al Hijawi ruled that female circumcision was "a noble trait" accepted by Islam, even though it was not a necessity.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
The author criticizes the state’s emergency law, in effect for nearly 25 years, which has helped the state impose its repressive authority on the people and silence opposition parties and views deemed as violating the ordinary permitted framework.
Date of source: Friday, April 23, 1999
The fatwa of Dr. Nasr Farid Wasel, the Grand Mufti, published lately in one of the papers stating that pilgrimage of actresses is not halal (not religiously permissible) caused a big fuss and much ado. Then the Grand Mufti denied that he released such a fatwa. Dr. Wasel wanted to stop the media...
Date of source: Monday, October 19, 1998
The inheritors, considering acting to be a sin, have burned all of Hussein Sedki’s films. The issue is whether acting is forbidden or not. Sedki was a veteran Egyptian actor.