Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
A new proposed article by the Azhar criminalizing any insults to God, the prophets, Orthodox Caliphs or the Prophet Muhammad’s wives stirred differences and arguments between the top Sunni institution and Copts. [Rajab al-Murshidī and Salāh al-Dīn Hassan, al-Watan, July 24, p. 5] Read text in...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
Civil movements rejected a proposal by ‘Ādil ‘Afīfī, leader of the salafī al-Asālah (Authenticity) Party, to form a commission of top scholars comprising salafī preachers and Azhar officials to be in charge of interpreting the principles of the sharī’ah stated in the Egyptian Constitution,...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
A new proposed article by the Azhar criminalizing any insults to God, the prophets, Orthodox Caliphs or the Prophet Muhammad’s wives stirred differences and arguments between the top Sunni institution and Copts. [Rajab al-Murshidī and Salāh al-Dīn Hassan, al-Watan, July 24, p. 5] Read text in...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
Meanwhile, leaders of salafī parties and movements said the implementation of the hudūd (system of penalties for offences and crimes in Islam) has become imminent because the people strongly support that, adding the secularists are weak and excel nothing but blabbering while they do not have actual...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
A new proposed article by the Azhar criminalizing any insults to God, the prophets, Orthodox Caliphs or the Prophet Muhammad’s wives stirred differences and arguments between the top Sunni institution and Copts. [Rajab al-Murshidī and Salāh al-Dīn Hassan, al-Watan, July 24, p. 5] Read text in...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
Civil movements rejected a proposal by ‘Ādil ‘Afīfī, leader of the salafī al-Asālah (Authenticity) Party, to form a commission of top scholars comprising salafī preachers and Azhar officials to be in charge of interpreting the principles of the sharī’ah stated in the Egyptian Constitution,...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
Coptic movements and figures slammed a so-called fatwá by Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, the deputy chairman of the Salafī Da’wah (Call) Movement, rendering as harām (religiously forbidden in Islam) any taxi drivers getting priests to their churches and said “this is worse than driving some people to pubs”....
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2012
Coptic associations called for the state’s intervention to prevent the church from civil legislation for Christians, have it confined to the religious aspects and that the government should enact civil laws on personal status for Copts away from any interference by the church.
The conference held...
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 12, 2013
Al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyya in al-Minya said that they intervened in the operation of reconciliation between Muslims and Christians in Banī Ahmad and managed to prevent the fitnah with the cooperation of the people from the village and the other close villages. They affirmed that in this case there is...
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 12, 2013
Minya
A customary reconciliation committee succeeded in reaching a final reconciliation between Copts and Muslims in Bani Ahmad Village in al-Minya. Both parties agreed to withdraw the lawsuits from court. The two sides also agreed on an indemnity clause of 2 million LE if either side attacks the...