Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2007 to Friday, November 16, 2007
Rose al-Yūsuf
magazine devoted a 15-page file to discuss the recent ’fearful’ phenomenon that spread like wildfire in
governmental hospitals where a high percentage of nurses turned to wear the Niqāb.
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Muftī of Egypt faced a storm of criticism following his ’controversial’ remarks about the Egyptian youths who died on the Italian shores while trying to cross the border illegally in search of a better life, in which he condemned their illegal acts and refused to consider them martyrs.
Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2007
Fahmī Huwaydī criticizes the use of religion to achieve certain political goals.
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2007
The article gives a summary of a two-full-page article, in which the author claimed that Dr. Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭanṭāwī, Shaykh of the Azhar, had used his high religious position for pursuing personal interests.
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al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah’s incarcerated members agreed on the introspection recently proposed by the ideologue of the Islamic groups. However, leaders of Islamic groups still disagree on the introspections of al-Jamā‘ah. Conversely al-Jamā‘ah calls on the leftist parties of Hadtū and the Labor...
Date of source: Saturday, November 3, 2007
Intellectual ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Misīrī asserts that preacher ‘Amr Khālid is a phenomenon worthy of study and attention.
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2007
Angry reactions continue to be heard in intellectual circles regarding press freedom. The developments in the crisis of the 80-lash Fatwá issued by the grand imām of the Azhar, calls to abolish imprisonment in publishing-related cases, and the future of press in Egypt are the main subjects...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Leaders of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah praise al-Jihād’s document for it included some transformations that support the peaceful thought of the Islamists which would stop their confrontation with the government.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī has sent the Judiciary Administrative Court a memorandum, in which he asserted that he has no authority regarding specifying whether to enforce the Ḥadd al-Riddah or not but it is the Dār al-Iftā’’s responsibility.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The article deals with the danger of "globalizing" Fatwás. A group of Muslim scholars from outside the Arab world highlight the effect of issuing general Fatwás on Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries. The author cites more than one Muslim scholar who stress that Fatwás should be specific to...