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Date of source: Tuesday, April 22, 2003
A fatwa issued by the former Mufti of Egypt stipulating that currency trade is haram has caused a juridical debate between Azhar scholars. The Sheikh of the Azhar referred the fatwa to the Islamic Research Institute for examination and comment.
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: Saturday, January 11, 2003 to Friday, January 17, 2003
Ijtihad is no longer bringing about new human opinions that consider the conditions and changes of life but is simply studying the opinions of the predecessors and try to discover rules in their work. Those rules have been turned into holy rules without which no ijtihad can be made. Such...
Date of source: Saturday, September 17, 2005 to Friday, September 23, 2005
The author discusses the ever-increasing number of activities and ideas named as harām [religiously impermissible] by extremists and suggests that this is a way in which these extremists attempt to influence and control the people.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 30, 2005
A senior Muslim cleric in London issued a fatwa saying that suicide operations are halāl [religiously permissible], according to Islamic sharīca. He even said that they are a religious obligation. However, following the bombings on the London Underground that killed scores of people and has led to...
Date of source: Saturday, July 20, 2002 to Friday, July 26, 2002
Rose Al-Youssef´s special file for this week covers many different subjects: Terrorists and Islamists living in Britain, Sheikh Amr Khaled´s way of preaching, Islam and politics, the role men of religion can play to build up societies and the issue of hijab in Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, March 30, 2002 to Friday, April 5, 2002
The Egyptian TV shows religious programs giving fatwas live on air. This leads to confusion among people as fatwas are given without due reflection. The head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee said that not every question could be answered directly. An Azhar scholar said that those who give fatwas...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The author is discussing whether the return of repentant actresses would be acceptable, since they had once considered acting and art as harām.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A discussion of homosexuality and Egyptian law taken from a bachelor’s thesis on Egyptian law.
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2006
In his interview with Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘a, the muftī of Egypt, the author of the article asks about fatwas and those qualified to issue them.
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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.