Date of source:
The article
carry some of the confessions given by suspects in last
year’s bombings in different areas of downtown Cairo, which
killed a number of tourists and Egyptians and
wounded dozens others.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Information was collected about an extremist group that prompts religious strife in
Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The
author writes about the current sectarian crisis between Muslims and Copts in Egyptian
society, listing a number of
factors that have caused these problems.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
A conference was convened recently
to discuss ways to stand up to terrorism through the propagation of moderate ideologies in the face of
extremism.
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: Monday, April 24, 2006
Hasan al-
Turābī’s liberal stand on women’s rights
has angered many Muslim scholars around the world. His
recent controversial fatwas, permitting
marriage between Muslim women and kitābīs
[Reviewer: People of the book: Christians and Jews]
and allowing women to lead men in communal prayers,...
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006 to Friday, March 24, 2006
Part of a series of interviews with Talāl al-Ansārī, a former Islamist terrorist who was a member of a violent Islamist group in the 1970s and who served a 20-year term in jail.
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2006
Fathī Mahmoud discusses the sectarian fitna in Iraq, stating that in an attempt to ensure such violence does not spread to Lebanon’s Sunni and Shi’ite communities, the Islamic authorities there have called for unity.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
In an interview with Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Sheikh A´id Qurani said that "sheikhs of takfir" renounced their old thoughts of their own free will and not under any pressure. He believes that the retreat of those sheikhs has delivered a blow to the heart of takfir-based ideology.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 16, 2003
The article deals with the matter of issuing fatwas. The author calls it the “game of fatwas” and believes it is the most serious catastrophe the Islamic nation has ever suffered from. These fatwas permit killing and destruction and then turn to the opposite direction to advocate tolerance and...