Date of source: Sunday, April 6, 2008
Zaynab Radwan, the deputy speaker of the parliament and a professor of Sharī‘ah recentlysubmitted a number of proposals to Parliament. Amongst other things, the proposals called for Bahā’īs’ rights to obtain formal documents and stated that Christian wives of Muslim men should be able to have a...
Date of source: Monday, March 17, 2008
Dr. Zaynab Radwān, the deputy speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly created heated debates in Egypt when she stated that a woman’s testimony in court is equal to that of man and that the non-Muslim wife of a Muslim husband should enjoy the same rights to inherit from her husband. The...
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent comments about the application of Sharī‘ah in Britain have created a massive wave of responses. Here one author who is a Muslim women discusses how Sharī‘ah still governs women and children in family law.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
A Coptic businessman has distributed his wealth according to the Islamic Sharī‘a for fear that his wealth would be lost by their husbands
Date of source: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
The sense of danger implied in the idea of the inter-civilizational clash pushed a lot of thinkers and politicians to adopt the issue of inter-civilizational dialogue. The world knew other kinds of dialogues, for instance, the dialogue between the North and the South, the Arabic-European dialogue...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The conservatives and the religious authorities in Qum in Iran are putting all their hopes on the Council for Maintaining the Constitution, whose membership includes eminent Shi’ite references. These Shi’ite references would stand up against reformers’ attack on the Shi’a fiqh or the constants of...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
Inheritance in Christianity is different from Islam. Each family deals with inheritance issues as it sees fit and as is suitable for its members. However, if one family member objects to what the rest of the family has decided, then the civil law, which is based on the provisions of the Islamic...
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Generally, non-Muslims living on Arab Muslim lands are radically denied the dignity of
the citizen. They are excluded from the process of decision making at all levels. Their rights
are denied, or at least severely restricted, in occupying positions of senior (’sovereign’)
ministries or prime-...
Date of source: Saturday, February 5, 2005
If we scrutinize carefully the verses of the Holy Qur’ān, we will notice that God places men and women on equal footing concerning duties and rights.
Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2001
Attorney Nabih Al-Wahsh filed a lawsuit against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband because she has left Islam and has not repented of her community-damaging ideas. The Mufti thinks that what Al-Sa’adawi said requires her to leave Islam and includes denials of what she knows about...