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Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
Contradictory fatwas could be welcomed in rituals but not when matters are related to families and personal affairs. The fatwa accepting divorce only if it happens before two witnesses is contrasted by another one accepting the divorce once a man tells his wife "I divorce you." A man who has...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
The head of the Azhar fatwa committee issued a fatwa limiting divorce to the presence of a third party witness in order to reduce divorces which are becoming a threat to society. The fatwa contradicts all the Sunna heritage and is based on Shiite references.
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2001
Scholars in Egypt are divided between rejecting and supporting the fatwa issued by the European Council for Fatwa and Research. The fatwa allows non-Muslim women who converted to Islam to stay with their still non-Muslim husbands. The Islamic Research Institute and the Egyptian Fatwa House...
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
The Mufti issued a fatwa prohibiting television competitions. Then the Grand Imam issued another fatwa allowing the competitions. The author wonders why there is this contradiction in fatwas and why not unite the opinions of the scholars and save public opinion from having to choose between...
Date of source: Friday, August 3, 2001
The Qur’an teaches Muslims to respect non-Muslims, who live in peace with them. It also allows them to do charity to the poor of the non-Muslims. However, they are not to be given from the almsgiving, which is one of the five principles of Islam and is dedicated only to poor Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2001 to Friday, August 10, 2001
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, the head of the European Council for Fatwa and Researches, issued a fatwa that allows a non-Muslim woman to stay with her non-Muslim husband after converting to Islam. The fatwa caused a great controversy and was refused by many Islamic scholars, who believe that as...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2001
Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi expressed the opinion that giving fatwas to Muslims, regarding their personal and general affairs is not limited to the Mufti and that all scholars share this with him. The Mufti believes that all Muslim scholars are allowed to give fatwas, but there are guidelines. He said...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001 to Friday, April 20, 2001
A sheikh, who worked for ten years in Germany as a teacher, and learned "Al-Higama" [scarification, his method of "treatment" teaches people how to treat themselves in this way. He does not take any fees for his practice. Instead he sells the visitors two audio tapes and a booklet explaining Al-...
Date of source: Friday, March 2, 2001
Pope Shenouda visited the Mufti to congratulate him on the Greater Bairam. Their conversation did not address anything political. It confined itself to how to consolidate national unity, the Islamic-Christian dialogue and Dar Al-Ifta joining the Committee of Inter-Religious Dialogue.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.