Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 1999 to Friday, September 10, 1999
The Legal Research Committee of the Azhar issued a number of recommendations and decisions concerning the Urfi and Misaar marriages. The committee made it clear that such marriages are considered legal if a number of conditions, mentioned in the full text, are met.
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Al-Turabi wrote a substitute Sunna. He believes the explanations of the Qur’an did not cope with the new age and it had to be developed.
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Mohammed Shebl criticizes two hadiths which have been used by extremists to justify their activities. He argues that those who deny that these hadiths lead to terrorism in fact encourage terrorism. The RNSAW asked Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, dean of the College of the Foundation of Religion (Usul el-...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Al-Ahrar succeeded in revealing the hidden connections between Egypt and India. The head of the Sunna deniers lives in India.
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 1999
Gamal Al-Banna says that he has not denied the Sunna, but what he has been asking for is to purify the Hadiths from all that is untrue and fabricated. He recently claimed that 90% of the Hadiths are not true and do not agree with the Qur’an. Dr. Yahia Ismael says the Al-Banna has not the right...
Date of source: Friday, August 6, 1999
The scholars of Al-Azhar harshly criticized Gamal Al-Banna for his opinions about the Hadiths and the necessity to establish new jurisprudence.
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Delegations representing 75 Islamic countries and six international Islamic organizations passed recommendations urging greater inter-Islamic cooperation at the conclusion of a four-day conference last Friday [June 25, 1999].
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
Delegations from 75 Islamic countries and six international Islamic countries and six international Islamic organizations participating in the 11th Cairo International Islamic Conference will tomorrow declare the recommendations of their conference.
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
In the recent speech made the dean of the Al-Azhar Islamic Theology Faculty, he called for a new Islamic jurisprudence, accusing the jurists of today of not thinking over the religious issues. This writer cautions that because the dean is a professor of philosophy he has no right to discuss the...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
The theological Islamic scholars warn against the sudden movement of ijtihaad [independent judgment on religious issues] that might arouse civil strife among the Muslims and the scholars. Dr. Abd Al-Sabour Marzouq, the secretary general of the Council of Islamic Affairs, says that the one who...