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Date of source: Saturday, July 29, 2006 to Friday, August 4, 2006
The author attacks Sudanese thinker Hasan al-Turābī, describing him as
a failed Sunnī version of al-Khūmaynī. He says that his thoughts are contradicted and twisted.
Date of source: Monday, May 22, 2006
In Eastern
Sudan, a Muslim girl has married a Christian boy, based
on a fatwa given by Shaykh al-
Turābī, general secretary of the Sudanese National
Conference Party.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
A number of Muslim scholars have urged the Azhar’ s Islamic Research Academy to refute the recent controversial fatwas of the Sudanese spiritual leader, Dr. Hasan al- Turābī.
Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
Sudanese politician and prominent Islamist Hasan
al-Turābī explains some recent
controversial statements he made about the permissibility of Muslim
women marrying kitābīs
[People of the Scripture] and the misunderstanding of the word
hijāb in the
Qur’ān, as well as a host of political and...
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Hasan al-
Turābī’s liberal stand on women’s rights
has angered many Muslim scholars around the world. His
recent controversial fatwas, permitting
marriage between Muslim women and kitābīs
[Reviewer: People of the book: Christians and Jews]
and allowing women to lead men in communal prayers,...
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
The 1994 fatwa declared the Azhar to be exclusively the sole body/party responsible for issuing opinions Islamic matters. These matters pertain to accepting or rejecting audio or audiovisual items. This fatwa has given the Azhar the legal right to monitor and supervise the intellectuals and...
Date of source: Thursday, February 17, 2005
A few days ago, about 70 Saudi intellectuals charged Mrs. Mirvat al-Talāwī of unbelief and called for her dismissal from the UN ESCWA. These charges imply the possible assassination of Al-Talāwī by any group that uses Jihād as a cover to its heinous operations. The main reason behind this campaign...
Date of source: Monday, February 14, 2005
The Counter-Terrorism International Conference, recently held in Riyadh began its work Monday with a statement by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Meanwhile, his deputy and the executive secretary general of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA...
Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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