Date of source: Friday, August 22, 2003
The author comments on the meaning of renewing the Islamic fiqh. He mentions three Muslim scholars as examples on how to renew the fiqh.
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2003
El-Geel, a weekly paper reported that the Sheikh of the Azhar calls the Minister of Culture and officials of the ministry kufar [unbelievers]. The Minister sent the Sheikh of the Azhar a letter asking him about the truth of such news. The Sheikh of the Azhar denied this and asserted he would never...
Date of source: Monday, March 27, 2006
Sawt al-Umma reports that the Shaykh of the Azhar has accepted an invitation to attend the Hanukah celebration in Egypt, while on the same day, Rose al-Yousuf publishes the Azhar’s denial of the news.
Date of source: Thursday, July 24, 2003
The author compares between two approaches in Islam. The first is the imitation approach that simply imitates the salafi ideas in a very traditional way without questioning them. The second is the reasoning approach that gives place to the mind to question everything.
Date of source: Saturday, August 20, 2005
Jamāl al-Bannā is a highly knowledgeable man who stands up in the face of practices aimed at repressing freedom of thought. He is, consequently, targeted by fundamentalists and extremists, and has been rejected by the Muslim Brotherhood, set up by his late elder brother Hasan al-Bannā.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2005
When freedom of expression does not exist, scholars, who should be coming up with fatwas to making our lives easier, lose the spirit of innovation.
Date of source: Friday, July 29, 2005
Dr. Muhammad ‘Umāra argues that Muhammad ‘Abduh’s articles, letters, and writings launched a new generation and modernized Arabic writing style. The intellectual press that he led was the banner of reform, through which ‘Abduh’s new conceptual framework was applied.
Date of source: Sunday, July 3, 2005
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer of Turkey has vetoed an amendment to the country’s new penal code that would reduce penalties for teaching unauthorized courses on the Koran.
Date of source: Saturday, December 11, 2004 to Friday, December 17, 2004
A recent news item said, “Spanish scientists unearth a 14-million-year-old fossil, which, they said, the ascendant of all primates and mankind according to Darwin’s evolution theory.”
Date of source: Saturday, June 1, 2002
[AWR: This is a full text translation of a Dutch text with permission of the author.]
Sociology professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim: “You can beat Saddam Hussein, no doubt. But what you cannot do is prevent a new Saddam Hussein from appearing, a new Bin Laden. As long as there is no democracy, no state...