Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Dr. Sayyid al
-Qimnī comments on President Obama’s speech at Cairo University and the new American strategy in dealing with the Arabic
and Islamic reality.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Dr. ‘Amārah presents the statements of Christian and Western
figures about the tolerance of Islam and the great values of Muslims.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Dr. Al-Qimnī
criticizes Islamic theocracy and argues that the so-called Islamic state does not exist out of the state of the
Shahābah. Then it was an Arab state whose religion was Islam. He criticizes what was done under that state and
calls to separate Islam from the state.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Dr. Sayyid al-Qimnī criticizes those who unrealistically demand the outright application of Sharī‘ah without taking into account the realities of the modern world.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Sayyid al-Qimnī argues that the concept of shūrá in Islam is different from contemporary democracy and says that Islamists try to prove that democracy existed in the Islamic culture to cope with the world’s new power, the United States.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The author bemoans restrictions imposed on the freedom of
press and discusses the cancellation of the license of Ibdā‘ magazine.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The author highlights a book entitled ’The Parting of
the Sea’ that made a breakthrough in the historic information about Jews exodus from Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 8, 2009
A number of critics have commented on Yūsuf Zaydān’s controversial ‘Azāzīl and
highlighted the difference between artistic and historical arguments.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The recent Bahā’ī jubilation following the Supreme Administrative Court ruling on March 16, 2009 which allows them to leave the religion box empty in their ID cards has been marred by an unprecedented sectarian attack against Bahā’ī’s houses in the Upper Egyptian village of al– Shūrānīyah in Sohag.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Dr Sayyid al-Qimnī comments on the idea that democratic elections are the
same as Islamic bay‘ah [Bay‘ah in Islamic terminology is an oath of allegiance to a leader.]