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Date of source: Saturday, August 26, 2006
The state security arrested, last week, a
new Muslim Brotherhood organization headed by a professor of at
the Nuclear Energy Authority and seized for the
first time survey forms contain questions about the kind of
obstacles facing the group activities in the
society.
Date of source: Thursday, July 20, 2006
According to Muhammad Khalīl, the terms, dār
al-harb [Reviewer: abode of war] and dār al-salām [Reviewer: abode of peace] that
traditionally used to refer to lands under Muslim rule and lands outside Muslim rule respectively, are not
applicable to the modern world. The author of the article...
Date of source: Thursday, June 22, 2006
In an attempt to curb the sea of fatwas, the Azhar has recently submitted a proposal to the People’s Assembly, in which it called for introducing legislation to criminalize the issuance of fatwas by unqualified Muslim scholars, Muhammad Khalīl writes.
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2006
Scholars from the Azhar rejected the opinion of the
muftī that terrorists should be physically
liquidated and called for confronting the problem of
terrorism through an enlightened Muslim way of thinking.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
The minister of
Awqāf, Dr. Hamdī Zaqzuq said that the unification
of the call to prayers will return the
sanctity and spirituality to the call instead of allowing random and noisy
voices. He also tried to allay
public concern about a possible plan to standardize Friday sermons.
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2006
The Islamic calls to prayers will be unified in Egypt through radio receivers’ which will
transfer a mu’adhin’s voice from the Azhar mosque to the loudspeakers of thousands of minarets in
Cairo
and some adjacent suburbs
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
Dr. al-Mat‘anī, a
scholar of the Azhar,
the top Sunni organization in the Muslim world, has criticized
Dā‘īya
cAmr Khālid who went to Denmark for dialogue with Danish
figures to explain the genuine
traditions of Islam, terming the initiative "hasty and random."
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006
Azhar scholars have slammed
an Administrative Judicial Court ruling acknowledging the Bahā’ī faith
as an official religion in
Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
A demonstration against attacking Afghanistan erupted in the Azhar mosque after Friday prayers. The demonstrators were led by some parliamentary members and members of Islamic and leftist parties. They were shouting against attacking innocent Afghan people and asked for the same way of fighting...
Date of source: Thursday, October 11, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt allowed veiled Muslim women who live in Western countries to remove their veil, if they found that it exposed them to danger or threatened their lives. This was as a result of the present circumstances Muslims are confronting in such countries as a reaction to the attacks in...
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