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Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2006
The
increasing influence of religion in Syrian society is the result of the
failure of the secular regime to implant
its ideology in the minds of the people, member of the secular
Ba‘th Party, Mus‘ab al
-Jindī, says.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
Although it has been approved and is
waiting for implementation, the
unified call for prayer is still controversial. The article discusses the opinions
of Islamic scholars and
experts on the matter.
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: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The Ministry of
Awqāf’s plan to unify the
Azān [The call to prayer] in Cairo’s mosques has provoked
heated controversy in Muslim circles.
Opponents to the plan say that introducing a single call to prayer, delivered
by a radio network,
contradicts the teachings of Islam. The minister of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The Egyptian minister of
awqāf [Endowments], Dr.
Muhammad Hamdī Zaqzouq, said the encrypted signal, used to produced a
single call to prayer in Cairo’s
mosques, would be sent from a broadcasting hub in al-Muqattam and would be
scrambled with the signal of the
Qur’ān Radio Station.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
The minister of
Awqāf, Dr. Hamdī Zaqzuq said that the unification
of the call to prayers will return the
sanctity and spirituality to the call instead of allowing random and noisy
voices. He also tried to allay
public concern about a possible plan to standardize Friday sermons.
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2006
The Islamic calls to prayers will be unified in Egypt through radio receivers’ which will
transfer a mu’adhin’s voice from the Azhar mosque to the loudspeakers of thousands of minarets in
Cairo
and some adjacent suburbs
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
The government has supplied 4000
recievers to the
mosques of Greater Cairo as part of a plan to unify the call to prayer, but some suspect a US plan
to unify
the Friday sermons and eventually cancel the dawn prayer.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
The Egyptian
Ministry of
Awqāf [endowments] has recently endorsed a proposal to unify the call to prayer that is
broadcast
from thousands of different loudspeakers in the country’s capital.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Azhar scholars rejected the suggestion to play recorded prayer calls instead of having prayer callers. They said this is not allowed according to the Shari´a.
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