Date of source: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa, a well-known media personality, stated that Egypt is a civil state and that religion has no bearing on the government’s service operations.
Date of source: Thursday, March 27, 2014
The 23rd International Conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs entitled “the Dangers of Takfīrī Thought, and Fatwas made without knowledge on National Interests and International Relations” came to a close. Participants from 41 Arab and Islamic countries agreed in the final...
Date of source: Sunday, February 23, 2014
Shaykh Sabrī ‘Ibādah, deputy minister of the Ministry of Endowments, stated that the ministry has decided that mosques are not to engage in any political affairs in order to prevent strife.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2014
The followers of Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Hawaini, a member of the Salafi Ulema Council, published a video of him after the defeat of the Muslim Brotherhood in the battle of the referendum, in which he called on the Islamists and preachers to work as advocates and leave political action.
Date of source: Sunday, September 13, 2015
On August 30, 2015, week 36, AWR published Part One of Kāmel `Abd al-Fatāh's “ Religion and Politics in Egypt”. AWR is happy to publish Part Two:
Egyptians were always remarkably rich in understanding of the Divine and His message to them. They understood the Divine Law operating in Nature all...
Date of source: Sunday, August 30, 2015
In his essay on Religion and Politics, Kāmel `Abd al-Fattāh writes:
Egypt seems not to learn from its past experiences; every regime that ruled the country over decades now, repeat the same pattern of mingling religion with state affairs or religion with politics. Egyptian political regimes still...
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Roadmap for religious reform
Al-Azhar, which has resisted and persecuted those who have attempted to reform Islam since the end of the 19th century, is now being called upon by Egypt’s president to do what they have long suppressed:. reforming Islam. The response of the sheikhs of al-Azhar has been...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
How can the perceived threat of Islamists be blunted? They should be encouraged to integrate themselves.
At the same time they should be convinced of the need to espouse the principles of citizenship and equal rights for all – rules already enshrined in Islam.
Meanwhile parties should not be...
Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2007
Fahmī Huwaydī criticizes the use of religion to achieve certain political goals.
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2007 to Friday, September 14, 2007
Waḥīd Ḥāmid compares the Islamic Justice and Development Party [AKP] in Turkey, which has reached power, and the Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt. He believes that the Turkish party has managed to attain power by concerning themselves with the real problems of people, unlike Islamists in Egypt...