Date of source: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Sulaymān Shafīq reports on the Second Laymen’s Conference concerning secularism.
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Majdī Khalīl discusses the forced disappearance of Coptic girls. The claims around this phenomenon are not new, however it is being announced more frequently. Khalīl discusses the reasons why Coptic families are more often daring to announce the disappearance of their girls, and the reasons behind...
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2006
The author writes on the petition by several lawyers to Egypt’s prime minister and the head of the Azhar, asking them to monitor and or eliminate websites of religious extremism.
Date of source: Friday, July 8, 2005
In order to examine the relationship between law and religion in Egypt, we should know that the legal system, since the establishment of civil courts in 1883, was never separate from religious rules. This is apparent in the influence of Islamic fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] on Egyptian civil law...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A discussion of homosexuality and Egyptian law taken from a bachelor’s thesis on Egyptian law.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
A look into the reasons behind the media storm over conversions of young women and girls from Islam to Christianity and vice versa
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: Friday, August 31, 2012
The Ministry of Social Affairs had closed the feminist association that was headed by Dr. Nawal Al-Sadawi in 1991. She has come back in order to establish an Egyptian feminist league in Egypt but the minister declared she had not approved it.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 6, 1999
Many donations are given at mosques associated with members of the Prophet Mohammed’s family, like Sayeda Zeinab or Al-Hussein, or those in which a shrine or mausoleum has been erected to the glory of pious and revered figures.
Date of source: Saturday, March 28, 1998
3,000 Sunni Muslims protest a civil marriage bill passed by the cabinet.