Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2000 to Friday, June 9, 2000
Rose al-Youssef has taken upon
itself to confront two recent, suspicious, religion-related phenomena. One is the new breed of Shaykh
preaching in private
homes. The other is the hypocritical defense of Islām in the face of a wave of
offending literary works. There is now a
third phenomenon...
Date of source: Thursday, November 9, 2006
The proposal of the National Council for Human Rights
(N.C.H.R.)
for reviving religious dialogue and reform of the educational curricula of the Azhar University has evoked
different reactions from religious and educational circles at the university.
Date of source: Thursday, November 2, 2006
Salmān al-Dussarī sheds light on a heated controversy in Bahrain nowadays over whether the candidates for the preliminary elections should be allowed to use pulpits and mosques as means in their electoral campaigns.
Date of source: Saturday, October 21, 2006 to Friday, October 27, 2006
The author deals with
the address delivered by President Husnī Mubārak on the
occasion of Laylat al-Qadr, in which
he urged scholars to pursue a contemporary religious discourse
that will help spread the principles of tolerance.
Date of source: Monday, October 16, 2006
An official report investigated the conditions that led to the killing of former president, al-Sādāt. The author is not convinced and asks for complete transparency and divulgence of the state’s archives 25 years later.
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
Western
governments are initiating local institutions for training and qualifying
imāms in a way that meets the
Western contexts in which they live and preach.
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
The author conducted an interview with Dr ‘Abd al-Sabūr Shāhīn
on Western attacks on
Islam and the role of Islam in Egyptian society.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Growing fundamentalism has become terrorism and has targeted intellectual and political elite. The reasons for these developments and their consequences are mentioned in the following text.
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
The review takes up the issue of the niqāb as Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, called on Muslim women in Britain to take off their veils in workplaces, while in Egypt, the President of Hilwān University made a decision to prohibit all niqāb-wearing students from entering the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 15, 2006
The author asserts that Islam
and Muslims are the enemy created by some western
circles, but Muslims are contributing to make the western
“imaginary” come true. He also notes that the war
against those who insult Islam has also targeted some Arab
intellectuals.