Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 3, 2008
An article presenting clarification on a number of Qur’ānic verses referenced by Geert Wilders in his film ’Fitna.’
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 6, 2007
Ḥasan Aḥmad Jaghām explains the Qur’ānic verse that is thought to order Muslim women to wear a Ḥijāb.
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More than twenty-five articles in the Arabic newspapers are dedicated to the issue of eliminating religious signs in French schools and its relationship to secularism. President Jacques Chirac?s speech on this issue has provoked contradictory reactions, not only inside the French community,...
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Muhammad Sayyed al-Ashmawi wrote a book titled "The Reality of Ḥijāb and the Pretext of the Ḥadīth.? He wrote that the way a person dresses is a life-affair [an issue of a personal choice] and has nothing to do with religion and that wearing a higab is not a conclusive religious ordinance....
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 4, 2006
The
writer records some arguments over some religious texts including al
Ahād hadīths,
Ḥijāb and circumcision. Also she discusses the question of right
hadīths and what is
called scarified hadīths.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 1, 2006
Following the mixed public reaction to the recent statements made by the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārūq Husnī, on the Ḥijāb, the People’s Assembly’s committees for Religious Affairs and Culture and Media held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue. In an attempt to...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 20, 2006
The author of the article, Nafīsah ‘Abd al-Fattāh, lashes out at Farūq Husnī, the Egyptian minister of culture, over his anti- Ḥijāb statements in which he described the Ḥijāb as a regressive trend in Egypt.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 8, 2006
Ākhir Sācah published a heated discussion about the alleged obligation of Muslim women to wear the Niqāb.
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 8, 2006
Prominent Azhar scholars express their views about forcing young girls to wear the khimār.
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 2006 to الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf devotes a file to the increasing phenomenon of the hijāb in Egypt.