Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2007 to Friday, June 22, 2007
The article is based on a file that was issued by Rose al-Yūsuf magazine on the role held by religious men in both Christianity and Islam in society, and their disputes with each other.
Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2007
The author considers the phenomenon of Islamophobia in the West. He provides examples of incidents that may have further fueled this phenomenon, including the incident of the “flying imāms,” where a U.S. Airways flight in Minneapolis was temporarily grounded after passengers reported six Muslims...
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2007
The author discusses Coptic iconography over time, as well as the significant contributions of a number of renowned Coptic iconographers.
Date of source: Sunday, April 15, 2007
The author considers reform in Islam, outlining the inhibiting stance that many Western countries adopt regarding reform in the Islamic world. The era of ‘political correctness’ has led many to blindly ignore violations of human rights in the hope of maintaining a level of correctness while not...
Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2007
An overview of the Secular Islam Summit held in the United States. The conference featured a number of speakers who supported reform within Islam as a religion and Muslim countries.
Date of source: Sunday, February 10, 2008
The following article presents the second in a series discussing the “talibanization” of education in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, May 10, 2003
The author discusses whether Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdel-Wahab, the founder of Wahabism, called for a new school in Islam or simply agreed with the imams of the four main schools. He gives a background on the ideologies of each school to conclude that there is accordance in everything between the...
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Many Azhar scholars have rejected female circumcision and even criminalized it based on the notion that the practice has never been a duty or obligation in Islam and there are no texts in the Qur’ān or sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] that encourage it.
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
A participant in one of the seminars held in the Ibn Khaldoun Center under the title "Renewing the religious discourse." said that Islamic thought needed another Luther " like the prophet." A member of the Center declared that he refuses religiousness based on the sayings of Prophet Muhammad,...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center is nowadays spreading its opinions through a series of seminars it organized under the title “Renewing Religious Discourse.” The center puts forward suspicious ideas declaring that the Islamic thought needs to be reformed because it is not based on a valid logic. Al-Liwaa’...