Date of source: Saturday, October 18, 2008
The Azhar protests against governments attempts to turn the Azhar into a classical, public university under the authority of the government. Scholars of the Azhar see this as an attack on their institution.
Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Zaynab ‘Abd Allāh reports on different opinions of Azhar scholars regarding the developing plan of the Azhar education.
Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2006
The author attacks an
article published by the independent newspaper al-Ghad, the mouthpiece of Ayman Nūr’s al-Ghad
Party, in which the journalist criticized the sahābah.
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
Zaynab ‘Abd Allāh writes about the latest controversial fatwá by Jamāl
al-
Bannā about smoking during fasting. She claims that the fatwá is only meant to distract
people’s
attention since there is nothing logic about it.
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
Scholars inside the Azhar
are split over a project proposed by a
businessman to have a stock exchange dealing in currency, a system of
economic activity that is new in Egypt
and Arab and Islamic countries, amidst arguments as to whether the proposal
runs counter to the
sharī‘a.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
The Egyptian Muftī cAlī
Juma‘ has been
quoted by some newspapers as saying in a seminar at the Azhar that extremists must
be killed and there is no need
to talk with them. According to these papers, he lauded security forces for
their approach to radicals.To verify
such reports, al- Usbua‘...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The recent plans of
the Egyptian
Ministry of Awqāf [Endowments] to introduce a single call to prayer has met with huge
opposition
from the public and a number of Muslim scholars, arguing that the unification of the azān
runs
contrary to the Islamic sharī‘a.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
Zaynab
‘Abd al-Ilāh, author of the article, sheds light upon how the
two newly-innovated types of
marriages, friend and Misyār marriage, have met with controversial
views from Islamic clerics.
Date of source: Monday, June 20, 2005
Zaynab, a student at the University of Hilwān, was subjected to a process of brainwash. She converted to Christianity for 188 days before she returned to her family and religion.
Date of source: Monday, November 14, 2005
The Islamic Research Academy has rejected a draft law on female circumcision submitted by the National Council for Women.