Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2000
This article presented several opinions for well-known scholars on various Islamic topics. Their opinions were very brief and to the point.
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2000 to Friday, April 14, 2000
Last century, the calls for setting the woman free were repeated by various notable figures. But, this century we have a different call in which it states the lessening of the woman’s role. Sheikh Omar Abdel Kafi issued several fatwas concerning birth control. He believes that a boy is better than...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
After the storm that the new family law [that is, the Personal Status Law] has created for the Muslims in the sessions of the People’s Assembly and its ratification, and with the number of sessions held by the assembly and the numerous interventions from different trends, many have neglected a...
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
The people who support this new law do not only believe that this law is a cultural necessity, but they believe that the Muslim woman enjoyed more rights at the beginning of Islam... The dean of the [Azhar] Faculty of Theology [’Usul el-Din], Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi is one of the supporters of the...
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
The Personal Status Law is still the focus of discussions among people. In spite of the fact that this law is important for society, some jurists consider it a game where everybody can talk and show off their fields of knowledge... Dr. Abdel-Fatah Al-Sheikh, the former president of the Azhar...
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
The People’s Assembly finally approved the draft of the new Personal Status law. The government had made important changes on the project before it was approved amending one article and deleting two key articles.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
The People’s Assembly finally approved the draft of the new Personal Status law. The government had made important changes on the project before it was approved amending one article and deleting two key articles.
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
In the weekly seminar for Al-Nidaa’ Al-Gadid [The New Call] organization, the attendees attacked the scholars of Al-Azhar, saying that they adopt a kind of Fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] called "Fiqh Al-Nakad" [Fiqh of annoyance]. The attendees said that they [the Azhar scholars] aim by it to defend...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The statement that was issued by a group of Al-Azhar scholars about the draft of the Personal Status Law says: God has ordered his prophet in the Holy Qur’an to follow him and to obey his orders. The pure Shari’a is an order from God and we have to obey his orders! ...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The statement issued by 31 scholars of the Azhar Scholars Front rejecting the Personal Status Law raised many questions about the identity of these scholars and to what extent they belong to the Azhar, especially since Sheikh Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, and The Islamic Research Council...