Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2011
No one wants a pure theocracy that enjoys no legitimacy and likewise no one either wants a secularist nation with no sharī'ah (Muslim law), writes the author in a column in the independent newspaper al-Shurūq al-Jadīd.
The coming Egyptian constitution has to be more democratic and civilized and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2010
The article discusses whether the second article of the constitution has a negative impact on the life of Copts in Egypt. ‘Abd Al-Fattāh explains the four dominant patterns of the relationship between the Constitution and religion in the modern world. He concludes that Egypt falls under the fourth...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Mu‘taz Billāh ‘Abd al-Fattāh discusses the difference
between liberalism and
secularism.