Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 24, 2008
The Ministry of Health is preparing a draft law on organizing the nursing craft in expectations of prohibiting nurses from wearing the niqāb during work.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 7, 2008
Although the Azhar has refused to acknowledge the Bahā’ī faith in Egypt, a recent court verdict has allowed Bahā’īs to put a ‘dash’ in the religion data box of identity cards.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2007
Muḥammad Khalīl interviews Wā’il Luṭfī, journalist at the semi-governmental Rose al-Yūsuf and author of a book entitled, ‘Dawalt al-Du‘āt al-Judud,’ [The State of Modern Dā‘īyahs], on the ideas mentioned in his book.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 29, 2007
The Azhar Scholars Front has declared a trend of responding to Shaykh of the Azhar’s most controversial Fatwás.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 22, 2007
The following lines present a review of the latest book of Dr. Maḥmūd Ḥamdī Zaqzūq, the Egyptian minister of endowments. The book is entitled, ’al-Islām wa Qadāyā al-Hiwār’ [Islam and the Issues of Dialogue].
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 19, 2007
The press review detects the ongoing discussions in Egyptian press on the chaos of Fatwás, especially the reactions to the recent Fatwá of the Egyptian Muftī Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah who refused to consider the Egyptian young men who drowned on the Italian cost to be martyrs.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 8, 2007
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Khalīl reports on the repercussions to a recent Fatwá prohibiting Muslim men from marrying Jewish
women residing in Israel.
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 6, 2007
al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ proposed a debate on how some Muslim scholars consider inter-religious dialogue. While many approve of it as being a positive means of creating peace and ending conflicts, others reject it in under the present conditions of attacks on Islam.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 5, 2007
Muftī of Egypt Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘ah talked about a number of issues, in an interview with al-Sharq al-Awsat, including fixed interest, setting up a body to monitor Fatwás, and the importance of coexistence between Muslims in the East and West.
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 23, 2004
Dr. Muhammad Emara, member of the Islamic Research Institute in Egypt, examined the term “fundamentalism” in his newly released book Al-usu’liya bayn Al-gharb wal al-Islam [Fundamentalism Between The West and Islam] and showed how this term is used by Western thinkers to confuse the notions [of...