Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999
Desiring to end the problems caused by differences among the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant orders, 43-year old agricultural engineer Milad Sobhi intends to start a new one of his own, cashing in on the nagging problem of divorce to rally support for his call.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 to Wednesday, May 12, 1999
The infamous Article 291 of the penal code, which exempts a rapist from punishment if he marries his victim, was canceled by the People’s Assembly on 20 April. Lawyers and women’s activists, who’d been pushing for years for amendment to the law, hailed the decision as a partial victory for women’s...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 1999
Egypt’s mufti Nasr Farid Wasel is a staunch critic of the theories proposed to update the principles of the old schools of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). He is particularly opposed to the leaders of this campaign, Professor Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi and writer Gamal Al-Banna.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999
For the author professor Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, Dean of the School of Theology at Al-Azhar, was influenced by the daring writings of Gamal Al-Banna when he initiated his theory of updating the principles of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).
Date of source: Tuesday, April 20, 1999
Over the past few years, Al-Azhar has been the venue of very serious confrontations between hard-liner and moderate sheikhs and scholars. This confrontation reached a peak during a seminar where professor Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, Dean of the School of Theology at Al-Azhar, presented his new theory of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 1999
Anybody who seeks some fame, and not least access to unlimited funds, can now harp on the tune of minorities in Egypt. This has been the case with ’Ibn Khaldoun Center’ which leaves no opportunity slip by without speaking about the rights of minorities in Egypt and suggesting that they are being...
Date of source: Saturday, January 16, 1999
Sufism advocates asceticism and meditation as a means of achieving rapturous union with the Divine, but now all you see is a smash of heterogeneous practices adopted in almost all Sufi orders.