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In a precedent inside the first parliament after the January 25 revolution, Salafī MP Mamdūh Ismā’īl stunned all fellow lawmakers when he recited the azān (Muslim call for prayers) for the ‘asr (afternoon) inside the People’s Assembly hall during debates. Parliament Speaker Sa’d al-Katātnī...
One of the interesting subplots to the Egyptian revolution is the fate of ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān, known as the Blind Shaykh, who is incarcerated in America for his role in organizing the 1993 attempt to blow up the World Trade Center. His family has maintained a small sit-in protest outside the US...
Salafi politics has taken Egypt by storm. This has surprised many commentators who underestimated their base of thought and non-political nature. For others, it has been a validation of years of Salafi work in mosques and surrounding communities to preach Islam and help the poor.   As an aid to...
On Friday, 28 October 2011, the first issues of two newspapers rolled out. The first paper is the new mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom & Justice Party (FJP), while the second is al-Fath (The Conquest), the mouthpiece of the Salafi movement.
Human Rights First organization said that the unified draft law on the construction of places of worship has made both Muslim and Christian leaders unhappy, rejecting the draft as restrictive and discriminatory to their respective religions. If the law is passed without serious revisions, the...
The defendants in the al-Zaytūn case ask that their trial be postponed. They fear that the al-Zaytūn trial will be influenced by the Naj‘ Hammādī trial, which will take place at the same time. 
al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah’s incarcerated members agreed on the introspection recently proposed by the ideologue of the Islamic groups. However, leaders of Islamic groups still disagree on the introspections of al-Jamā‘ah. Conversely al-Jamā‘ah calls on the leftist parties of Hadtū and the Labor...
A religious state looms, as evident with the emergence of Muslim and Coptic religious parties.
The arrest of the lawyer of the Islamic groups, Mamdūḥ Ismāīl, surprised those interested in political affairs in Egypt. Most surprising are the accusations fielded at Ismāīl regarding his relationship with al-Qā‘idah.
Two fugitives belonging to al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah denied any communication with the recently arrested lawyer Mamdūh Ismā‘īl. Ismā‘īl’s arrest attracted wide media attention both within and outside of Egypt.

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