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The “Jurists of Moodiness” are a group of religious Scholars that publish hardline Fatwas based on their ‘wrong’ readings and interpretations of religious texts without taking into consideration any social conditions for the Fatwa, for example those issued by the Salafist preachers Abū Ishāq al-...
On the other hand, a number of Azhar scholars and leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church vehemently rejected images showing U.S. soldiers urinating over the dead bodies of the Afghan Taliban Movement fighters, describing the act as "ugly, barbaric and violating respect for humans". Muhammad Ra'fat '...
Scholars of Islamic sharī'ah and the Azhar agreed that Shaykh Mahmūd 'Āmir, the chairman of the Ansār al-Sunnah al-Muhammadīyah (Supporters of the Prophet's Sunnah) Association in Damanhūr, was not right in his fatwa prohibiting voting in the elections for Muslim candidates who do not observe daily...
The Islamic Research Academy holds an urgent meeting today to discuss Bishop Bīshūy’s offensive statements about the Qur'ān and Islamic faith. The group says that Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib is outraged by the statements. Dr. Muhammad Ra‘fat ‘Uthmān claims the reason behind the current...
Mohamed Raafat Othman called the Grand Mufti's comments on the Kamilia Shehata case "contradictory" as the Grand Mufti once said it was permissible for Kamilia to be handed over to the Church, and then later on said it was unacceptable. Islamic Philosophy Professor Amina Nasr added that what...
The following lines present Muslim scholars and lecturers at the Azhar University’s opinions about the recent crisis between the Vatican and Israel on the background of the reinstallation of a Catholic bishop who doubted the number of people killed in the Holocaust. The Vatican pope seems to be...
Two Muslims scholars voice their opinions about the recent demonstrations and strikes that have taken place in Egypt.
Muslim scholars warn against the disastrous danger of water over-consumption after official statistics revealed that Egyptians squander 7 billion Egyptian pounds annually due to water over-consumption.
Dr. Zaynab Radwān, the deputy speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly created heated debates in Egypt when she stated that a woman’s testimony in court is equal to that of man and that the non-Muslim wife of a Muslim husband should enjoy the same rights to inherit from her husband. The...
Ahmad al-Khatīb reports on the first Qur’ānists conference that will be held in the U.S. this month.

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