Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2007
Egyptian security forces recently launched a massive drive against leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, since group-related students gave a military style rally in the Azhar University a few months ago [AWR, week 51, 2006, article 26]. Members of the group say that the crackdown aims at removing the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
‘Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jamā‘ah’ [The Majority of Muslims] have been the majority of the Islamic nation in all times and in every place.
Date of source: Sunday, February 18, 2007
The author argues that the meaning of terrorism constitutes an intellectual problem for Western thinkers who have not succeeded in given it a comprehensive definition. This is contrary to Sharī‘ah which not only defined terrorism, but also differentiated between it and the other concepts and...
Date of source: Friday, February 16, 2007
The former president of the Fatwá Committee at the Azhar rejects legislation outlining the execution of Murtadds.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Discussions about Maḥmūd Ṭāhā’s work 22 years after his execution.
Date of source: Thursday, February 8, 2007
The interview with Muṣṭafá al- Fiqī, chief of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the People’s Assembly, is about the new amendments to the Constitution, the concept of the citizenship, and the Coptic political stance among these changes.
Date of source: Thursday, February 8, 2007
The article discusses honor killings and the reasons behind them. It highlights organizations that are attempting to combat these crimes, and their frequency throughout the Islamic and Western worlds.
Date of source: Saturday, February 10, 2007
The author rejects some Muslims’ interest in trivial matters and calls on them to pay more attention to serious Islamic issues.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 7, 2007
The author analyzes the crisis of issuing Fatwás in terms of the discord status among official bodies of Fatwá, and their claims of monopolizing the Islām.
Date of source: Friday, January 26, 2007
Ṭāhā Farghalī reports about the incident of destroying 17 Christian websites.