Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005 to Friday, July 29, 2005
The book Jawāz Imāmit al-Mar’a [the legality of women leading prayers], by Jamāl al-Banna, raises many questions for the reader.
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005
When Dr. Amīna Wadoud designated herself as an Imām, leading the “American” Muslims who followed her, in a Friday prayer in New York, the Arabic and Islamic world flamed up with rage. The ulemas flared up and their appetites for issuing fatwas increased.
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
Muslim communities in the West are searching for role models through whom they can find the right path to religion.
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2005
The Azhar’s Islamic Research Institute under Grand Imām Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī approved banning the publication of books that “foment sedition and cause rifts in the Arab and Muslim ranks.”
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Tāriq Ramadān, grandson of late Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Bannā, has urged freezing capital
punishment in Islam like stoning and decapitation.
Ramadān also urged the mobilization of Muslims worldwide to ask
their governments to stop applying the hudoud, alleging the application...
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
Dr. Ahmad al
-Tayyib, President of the Azhar University, talks in al-Musawwar about the legality of a woman leading prayer, the Western
demands for a change in the Azhar curricula, and reports that Jihād verses were omitted from the Azhar curricula.
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005
Articles in AWR show the many varied opinions in Egyptian media; those who advocate change and those who want to preserve traditional Islamic heritage.
Coptic author Rafīq Habīb believes Copts are now used in arguments to justify foreign intervention.