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Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, Minister of Endowments, stated in an interview that the reason for his request to the Ministry of Justice to grant the right of judicial arrest to the inspectors of the Ministry of Endowments is to increase the control of the Ministry over the mosques and stop any...
Date of source: Monday, October 20, 2014
The “Jurists of Moodiness” are a group of religious Scholars that publish hardline Fatwas based on their ‘wrong’ readings and interpretations of religious texts without taking into consideration any social conditions for the Fatwa, for example those issued by the Salafist preachers Abū Ishāq al-...
Date of source: Saturday, April 26, 2014
For the second week in a row, the Endowment Department in Minya failed to put the mosques of the Jamā’ah al- Islāmiyah under control. Last week this made Endowment Ministry officers file a complaint in the police station against Muhammad Yaqūb, a popular Salafī preacher. The same incident recurred...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Shaykh Jābir al-Tāyi’, Deputy of the Ministry of Endowments, assured that non-Azharis among the Salafī preachers, including Shaykh Muhammad Hassān and Muhammad Hasanayn Yaqūb and Abū Isāq al- Huwaynī are not permitted to ascend the pulpits of mosques, as they are not appointed by the Ministry,...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
There are a number of religious scholars and preachers who were once representative of the beauty of Islam, and now have lost most of their popularity and legitimacy with their involvement in politics. Politics either has gotten the best of them, or burned them completely from the public sphere
Date of source: Monday, June 23, 2014
Shaykh Mazhar Shāhin, former Imam of the ‘Umar Makram mosque at Tahrir square, and now TV presenter of Tahrir TV channel, stated that Salafi Shaykh Muhammad Hussayn Yaqūb used to enter the studio in one of the religious channels accompanied by private body guards.
Date of source: Thursday, June 5, 2014
Shaykh Muhammad Hussayn Yaqūb, one of Salafī preachers, has called upon the Islamists to return to preaching leave behind political life.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The Ministry of Endowments has decided to ban three of the Salafī Call preachers from preaching in mosques. These include preachers Shaykh Abū Isaac Al Huwaynī, Shaykh Muhamad Hassān and Shaykh Muhammad Hussayn Ya’qūb. The ministry decided that they should get a license before giving sermons. This...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Muhammad al-Dusūqī Rushdī writes that the dangers of the counter-revolution lies in the salafīyah main-stream, which intimidates people.
He added that nothing is more dangerous than the words of Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Ya'cūb who perceived the referendum as an invasion won by the Muslims against...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2011
As already reported in the article “prominent Egyptian Salafī proclaims victory of religion in referendum”, Salafī preacher Muhammad Husīn Ya’qūb has lately described Egypt’s recent referendum results as a “yes to religion”, demanding that everyone, who voted against it had to leave the country.
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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.