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The head of Ansar Al-Sunna Al-Muhammadi [the Supporters of the Sunna of Muhammad] group in Egypt refuted all the accusations that attribute extremism to the ideas of Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdel-Wahab, the founder of Wahhabism. He said that such accusations are incorrect and do not have any scholarly...
A fatwa issued by the former Mufti of Egypt stipulating that currency trade is haram has caused a juridical debate between Azhar scholars. The Sheikh of the Azhar referred the fatwa to the Islamic Research Institute for examination and comment.
The author approaches four Muslim scholars on the issue of improving Islamic religious discourse. They all agree that the religious discourse should be improved. Each of them gives his perception of how it should be improved.
Dr. Soad Saleh, comparative jurisprudence professor at the Azhar University, says that the Mufti of Egypt welcomes her demand to appoint a female mufti. She accepts women assuming presidency of the State but rejects that a woman be appointed as a grand imam of the Azhar
The appointment of the first Egyptian female judge in the Supreme Constitutional Court caused a dispute between the Grand Imam of the Azhar and Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi concerning women working in the judiciary.
The Sheikh of the Azhar denies that Qur’anic Jew-related verses have been omitted from the educational curricula of the Azhar. He stresses that developing the Azhar curricula has nothing to do with the subjects related to legal sciences and that it is a change in the form and way of teaching and...
There is a strong relation between Richard Sothorne’s Soura al-Islām fī Uoroubā fī al-‘Usour al-Wousta [Image of Islam in Medieval Europe] and Ibrāhīm al-Qadrī’s Bayn Akhlāqīyyāt al-‘Arab wa Dhhinīyāt al-Gharb [Arab mentalities and Western Thoughts].
Egyptian Muslim scholars disagree on whether it is lawful under the Shari´a to celebrate New Year´s Day. Some scholars say it is not in the Islamic sunna and thus is forbidden. Others say it is lawful and not an imitation of non-Muslims.
The decision of the Creed and Philosophy Committee in the Islamic Research Institute which gives the apostate a lifetime chance to recant his apostate ideas has led Egyptian lawyers to call for reopening the case of Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid, who was accused of apostasy in 1995.
Controversy and disagreements flared up between Azhar leaders as a result of an invitation sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Sheikh of the Azhar calling him to hold a meeting for dialogue. The Grand Imam and the deputy Chairman of the Azhar Permanent Committee for Inter-Religious Dialogue...

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