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Date of source: Thursday, February 20, 2003
The article raises many questions regarding issuing fatwas as many people believe that issuing fatwas is facing troubles and may have reached a crossroads.
Date of source: Sunday, February 16, 2003
An inspector for the Ministry of Endowments gives the opinion that women are religiously allowed to pray and fast during menstruation. He is judged for giving similar “strange” opinions. A professor at the Azhar University says that he is an apostate who should be killed if his apostasy threatens...
Date of source: Saturday, February 15, 2003
Interview with the head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee concerning the work of the committee and some of the controversial fatwas he issued. He also gives his opinion on modern Islamic preachers
Date of source: Friday, September 9, 2005
In an interview with al-Ahrām, Dr. Khālid Abu al-Fadl, President George Bush’s appointee to the Commission on International Religious Freedom, gave his opinions on religious democracy, the secularization of religion and Islamic preaching.
Date of source: Saturday, July 30, 2005
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a ferocious attack on the religious institution in Egypt. Most of the criticism was based on subjective opinions, and not on any enlightened analysis of reality.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Some people are appearing on satellite channels and issue strange fatwas in return for astronomical amounts of money - that rival the sums received by movie stars and singers - without a thought for the confusion they cause.
Date of source: Thursday, July 28, 2005
In an interview with al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī, Shaykh Ahmad Badr al-Dīn Hassoun, the new Muftī of Syria, slammed the phenomenon of fatwas being announced on satellite channels. He said that the Muslim nation [umma] today is in dire need of joint, collective fatwas.
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005
Nothing competes with the fatwa-issuing business in Egypt. Television, newspapers and the internet are stuffed with fame-craving shaykhs wrestling with differences in opinion about religious issues.
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005
The fatwa issued by the Muftī concerning the assassination of Ihāb al-Sharīf, the Egyptian envoy in Iraq, has triggered questions about the political role of the jurist institution in Egypt and the Islamic world, as well as the limits and rights of jurists.
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005 to Friday, June 24, 2005
Public Prosecutor Māhir ‘Abd al-Wāhid ordered the release of 463 persons suspected of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, but retained the custody of 37 others on charges of staging unlicensed marches in several areas in Egypt on May 3, 6 and 14, 2005.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.