Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Safwat 'Abd al-Ghanī, a member of al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyāh's Shūrá Council, handed the group's party papers to the Committee for Political Parties' Affairs.
The party will be called al-Binā' wi al-Tanmīyah.
From the other hand, Ahmad Rāsim al-Nafīs, Shi'ite thinker, said that the documents for...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
People's Assembly member Ahmad al-Sahafi wants to know what the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments has done to encourage imāms to push for acceptance and co-existence between the country's Copts and Muslims, especially in light of the New Year's Day attack on a church in Alexandria.
According to a...
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2010
A controversy regarding whether a Christian can translate the Qur’ān was recently triggered when a Christian researcher in Morocco translated the Muslim holy book into a Berber language, which upset religious scholars in Morocco.
Some Islamic scholars at the Azhar say that it is not allowed...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The issue of subjecting books of hadīth and interpretation to a process of sifting out Israelite hadīths has resurfaced, although the matter has in the past been met with loud opposition from some religious authorities.
The Azhar University has called for the addition of a new subject to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Copts always feel that state security does not intervene to resolve their problems unless they resort to demonstrations and media pressure. General Fu’ād 'Allām, former state security deputy, points out that the relationship between Copts and the state is run through the state security. That is...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2010
Members of the Sufi sect of Islam promote an ideology to counter the influence of Wahhābism.