Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
The Administrative Jurisdiction Court took a decision to cancel the decision of firing a student in one of the secondary schools for refusing to take off her niqab.
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Officials at Al Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institution, are in the process of preparing a religious edict they hope will help discourage the controversial practice of naming commercial enterprises after any of the 99 names of God.
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 1999 to Friday, September 10, 1999
The Legal Research Committee of the Azhar issued a number of recommendations and decisions concerning the Urfi and Misaar marriages. The committee made it clear that such marriages are considered legal if a number of conditions, mentioned in the full text, are met.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Dr. Ahmed Sobhi Mansour said that he had been treated unfairly by many people just because he opposed them in their opinions. He said he did not deny the Sunna, but he asked the scholars of the Azhar to delete the mistakes that were committed when the Sunna was written.
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 1999
Magdy Hussein, editor-in-chief of Al-Shaab, has now been sentenced to two years in prison for libel. The sentence is the result of the campaign of Al-Shaab of over a year against Youssef Wali, Minister of Agriculture. Hulsman met several times with Hussein and described his views on Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 1999 to Friday, September 3, 1999
Pope Shenouda says some Copts might go to Israel to celebrate the year 2000 but he doesn’t want normalization with Israel until they give up the land they usurped.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 1999
Wa’el Ibrashi got hold of the report the Azhar prepared about Abdel Sabour Shahin and discovered that the report can provide a new charter of freedom of speech, thought and " ijtihad " , bringing to a halt an approach of hunting down intellectuals, thinkers and artists as disparagingly tackling...
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 1999
After he was exonerated from accusations of blasphemy and apostasy, Muslim thinker-scholar professor Abdel Sabour Shahin, added fuel to the growing dispute over his latest book when he emphasized that he was abiding with every letter and every word published in his book.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999
The followers of Libyan leader Al-Qadhafi denied the Sunna with the full knowledge of the Sheikh Al-Azhar and without him taking any action against them.
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
The RNSAW gave a summary of both Rose el-Yousef articles in RNSAW, week 28, edition July 9-15, 1999. Since several readers asked for the full text that text is given in this issue together with comments from Evangelical Egyptian church leaders.
Wa’el Lotfi writes about the opposition of Egypt’s...