Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article deals with an incident in which a woman wearing a niqāb smashed a number of great works by a fine sculptor after a recent fatwa from the muftī saying that statues are not acceptable from a Muslim point of view.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article focuses on the resignation offered by a professor in the fine arts college over a mounting ultra-religious trend that believes that art is harām [unacceptable from a Muslim point of view].
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
The government has supplied 4000
recievers to the
mosques of Greater Cairo as part of a plan to unify the call to prayer, but some suspect a US plan
to unify
the Friday sermons and eventually cancel the dawn prayer.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
The grand muftī of Egypt sheds light on the reason behind the conflicting and bizarre fatwas perplexing people.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
Zaynab
‘Abd al-Ilāh, author of the article, sheds light upon how the
two newly-innovated types of
marriages, friend and Misyār marriage, have met with controversial
views from Islamic clerics.
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: Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Deepening dialogue between the Islamic world and the West.
Reports about consequences of a fatwa prohibiting statues.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
The Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy holds
an extra-ordinary
meeting to decide on the issue of recognizing the Bahā’ī faith.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Sawt al-Umma exclusively publishes a copy of a
Bahā’ī marriage
certificate, issued in 1952 between Christian Fathī Tādrus
‘Abd al-Masīh, 26, and
Muslim Qudsīya Husayn Rouhī, 21, after they both converted
to Bahā’ism.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Khālid al-Jundī refutes the accusations by Bishop Marqus of Shubra al-Khayma that he incites hatred against Copts.