Date of source: Tuesday, June 8, 2004
[This article was previously translated last week from Al-Hayat newspaper issue of May 26 under the title “The [Muslim] Brotherhood members were divided about the ideas of [Sayyed] Qutb that was based on the takfir-based ideology [accusing a person or the society as a whole of unbelief].The supreme...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 8, 2004
The articles about the hijab and the niqab affair written by the intellectual Hussein Ahmad Amin, which were published in issues 214 and 215, elicited controversial reactions. The debate around the veil, as presented by Amin, is a scientific dialogue and should not be related to his personal views...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2004
This study aims at examining the historical events that marked the relationship of Hassan Al-Hudaiby, the second supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the “Tanzim Al-Ekhwan” [the organization of the Brothers] that was led by the late Sayyed Qutb. The organization was uncovered in 1965. One...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
The ideas of Sayyed Qutb were transmitted to the Muslim Brotherhood through the then-supreme guide Hassan Al-Hudaiby. Al-Hudaiby did not know that there were 300 young men studying Qutb’s ideas.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Saudi intellectuals preceded their Arab counterparts in submitting a number of collective demands to their government to effect political reform. The Saudi culture faces two main streams of thought: the reformist stream and the conservative stream, both cutting across the intellectuals and the...
Date of source: Friday, October 1, 2004
Egyptian listeners do not know anything about that blond bearded man who suddenly appeared to be international singer Youssef Islam. Egyptian listeners were surprised when they heard that a number of Islamic songs will be broadcast on a popular private music channel. The listeners’ interest in...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
The idea of a conflict between civilizations is not a Western invention, but almost an Islamic-Arabic one. Arabs believe the illusion that they are a threat to the West and that the West keeps conspiring against them. They always try to see others as responsible for their failures. Such feelings...