Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The article discusses the weekly Friday sermon and the
poor
performance of the preachers, whom many view as insufficient to stand on the minbar [a pulpit inside
the mosque] and deliver sermons to Muslim worshippers.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The author investigates the rampant ultra- religious current and the niqāb phenomenon inside the Fine Arts College in Egypt, starting his 11- page news feature with a photo depicting several female students wearing the niqāb inside the college with a caption reading "this is a photo of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The author argues that political and cultural imbalances are behind the problems Egypt is facing, criticizing the language of dialogue between deputies in parliament and the failure to agree, from a national perspective, on a decision to end the state of emergency, in effect since 1981.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Salāma contemplates the conciliatory possibilities of religious discourse and
warns against
the use of religion to divide people.
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: Monday, May 8, 2006
The Islamic singing
business and its gains that reached twelve million Egyptian pounds. Islamic sources asserted that Islamic
singing
began thirty years ago and it was allowed according to certain conditions.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
The author investigates the practice of an international
football referee,
Muhammad al-Sayyīd, who has reportedly stopped several games in the football league to
listen to the
adhān.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The author in this article criticizes the muftī and the religious
institution,
refuting the muftī’s defense that it has never been responsible for terrorism, and
calls for
fatwas taking into account the spirit of modernity.
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.