Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 22, 2007
Muḥammad al-Asma‘ī reports on the statements of Muslim scholars about the ongoing attacks against Islam and its holy symbols in the West.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 8, 2007
Swedish cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad arouse wide protests in the Muslim countries. Muslims worldwide protest the cartoons, the newspaper, and the artist. Some Muslim countries prepared official complaints to the Swedish government and the Egyptian press observed Muslim scholars’ opinions...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 29, 2007
Religious, medical, and social milieus in Egypt witness heated discussions about the legitimacy of female circumcision. The Muftī of the republic considers it H...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2007
Dr. Ahmad ‘Umar Hāshim rejects the project of unifying the Adhān proposed by the Ministry of Religious Endowments as it abolishes a rite in Islam.
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Terrorism has proliferated in nearly all Islamic and Arab countries despite the differences between the ruling regimes. Within the Palestinian people’s resistance against the Israeli occupation, the phenomenon spread that some called “suicide bombing” and others called “martyrdom operations.”
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Amīna Wadoud, a professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, led the Islamic prayer service before a mixed congregation of nearly 150 men and women at an Anglican church in New York City. Muslim scholars unanimously agreed that it is categorically forbidden for women to lead...
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How could Sufism, which has been penetrated by some pretenders and impostors, return to its golden age?
Real Sufism is synonymous with spiritual and mental purity, out of the love for God and His messenger, away from any sentiments of envy, venom, hatred or grudges. Sufism has been penetrated by...
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Minister of Education Dr. Ahmed Gamal al-Dīn asserts that any school that declines to teach Islām will be liable to prosecution adding the teaching of Islām is one of the prerequisites for obtaining license.
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The new law that gives the authority of judicial seizure to the Azhar triggered much fear that it will promote the authority of the Azhar and threaten freedom of expression.
The Minister of Justice, Farouq Seif al-Nasr, said that the decision is not targeted at literary books, and such books would...
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The recent statement by the Shaykh of Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi in which he said that the French government has the right to impose a ban on the H...