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In an interview with al-Ahālī, Egyptian intellectual Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd, who left Egypt after Islamists filed a lawsuit against him accusing him of apostasy and forcibly divorcing him form his wife, speaks out on the current stagnant situation of Egyptian society.
A book review of Jamāl al-Bannā’s book, My Coptic Brethren.
Contrary to the expectations of many, the muftī of the republic, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a has apologized for not participating in the newly-formed Interfaith Dialogue Committee affiliated with the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy.
Ijtihad was a great door to freedom in the dawn of Islam. Each ijtihad should be connected to its age and should put the holy text in the service of the age and not the other way round. However, fiqh scholars laid down rules that made valid ijtihad an impossible task.
Ijtihad is no longer bringing about new human opinions that consider the conditions and changes of life but is simply studying the opinions of the predecessors and try to discover rules in their work. Those rules have been turned into holy rules without which no ijtihad can be made. Such...
The book Al-Islām wa Usoul al-Hukm [Islam and the fundamentals of rule] by ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Rāziq, which was published in 1925, offers a comprehensive analysis arguing that Prophet Muhammad was not a king, and that Islam does not have a system of governance under the banner of belief.
Sayyid writes on the statements of participants in a meeting organized by Goethe Institute, the German cultural center in Cairo, who underlined the need to enhance values of tolerance as a basis for an understanding and peaceful coexistence that rests on mutual respect and justice.
If anyone would like to see an example of the media of strife, he may take a look at the distorted, fabricated news published by Arabic papers last week. This news is about the statement Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi made at the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate about the resistance against the Americans...
On September 7, Israeli newspapers published the text of a letter of senior Israeli rabbis directed to the head of the Israeli cabinet, Ariel Sharon. The letter urges Sharon not to hesitate to harm Palestinian civilians in the ongoing confrontations in the occupied territories.
In his last Friday sermon in Doha, Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī indicated that it may be his last this season and revealed that the Qatari TV had erased all his previous speeches.

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