Date of source: Thursday, March 29, 2007
Islamic scholars of the Azhar have rejected a fatwá issued by a key Islamic leader in Sudan, Dr. Hasan al-Turābī, in which he denies the hadd of stoning a male adulterer, believing it to be a Jewish rather than an Islamic order. He also recognises the testimony made by an educated woman as equal to...
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2007
The article sheds light on ‘Urfī marriages and the necessity of the Azhar institutions to interfere to deliver Fatwás showing the right path to the confused youths and to prevent the spread of corruption in the society.
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2004
Some clerics - shaykhs and priests - have suddenly turned into experts in economics, sociology, chemistry and physics as well as politicians who advise people to follow their opinions through Fatāwá, the observance of which is obedience to God and their breach considered apostasy.
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The dean of the
Faculty of Dār al-‘Ulūm said that Shaykh Attya Saqr?s Fatwá that considers handshaking between men and women H...
Date of source: Saturday, January 27, 2007
Ahmad Amīn ‘Arafātslams some satellite channels for inviting unqualified Muslim clerics who issue online Fatwás without having considerable knowledge of Islām. Citing Dr. Rashād Khalīl, the former dean of the Faculty of Sharī‘ah and Law, as an example, ‘Arafāt indicated that Dr. Khalīl issued a...
Date of source: Monday, December 25, 2006
A fatwá issued by the British
Muslim Forum considers Muslim soldiers who are killed in Iraq and Afghanistan as ’martyrs,’ provoked an
outcry amongst the British Muslim community.
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Azhar
scholars rejected
Prof. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi’s Fatwá that allows a couple not able to bear children to
implant their zygote in the
womb of another woman. They announced him a deviant from true Islām. Bayoumi
said he is ready to turn from this
fatwa if any medical discovery proved that...
Date of source: Monday, November 20, 2006
In the light of al-Ghad’s
publication of the
"offensive" supplement which attacked the Prophet Muhammad’s companions and wife, the author of
the
article stresses the need for a consistent application of the law which criminalizes insulting religions.
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The three weekly publications
ran simultaneous interviews with the
Sheikh of the Azhar, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, who was angry about the accusation of
being away during the
strongest ever controversy in the Egyptian society, which was about the novel "A Banquet for
seaweed."
Date of source: Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Ākhir Sācah published a heated discussion about the alleged obligation of Muslim women to wear the Niqāb.