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6. Egypt: young preachers…a new voice in the time of globalization
Date of source: Friday, June 7, 2002
The stereotyped picture of Muslim preachers is no longer acceptable in the age of globalization. Arabic satellite channels propagated a new generation of preachers known as young preachers. Analysts say that the phenomenon of young preachers has nothing to do with the decrease in the activities of...
5. Licenses upon request
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2000 to Friday, May 5, 2000
Despite the unsatisfactory level of female graduates from religious institutes, the Ministry of Religious Affairs has given them legitimacy, as they can get a license to teach Islam and practice the Da’awa once the security authorities give their approval. These female graduates became accepted as...
8. New places for fanaticism called religious sessions
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
Religious fanaticism enters the minds of people through sessions, in which each sheikh, amir [leader of a fanatic group] or preacher claims that the community is sinful and that this must be changed by violence. We have warned in several issues about the religious sessions held by unqualified...
3. The da’iya [woman who calls people to Islam] Shereen: I work under the supervision of the Religious Affairs Ministry, and I am not involved in issuing "Fatwas"
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2000
The polemic da’iya Shereen taught hundreds of women, from different social strata, to hold to their Islamic principals, and dedicated her efforts to extend religious culture, but she decided not to squeeze herself in issuing Fatwas "religious decrees", and she won’t defend herself as God defends...
2. The Minister of Al-Awqaf [Religious Endowments] supports the da’iya [woman who calls people to Islam] Shereen
Date of source: Monday, April 3, 2000
The Minister for Religious Affairs, Hamdy Zaqzouq, supported the da’iya Shereen, in a press conference, which was principally held to announce arrangements for an Islamic conference. Shereen is at the center of a controversy over non-licensed Muslim women theologians being allowed to teach in...
1. The unemployment of female theologians and the "business" of charlatans
Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2000 to Friday, March 31, 2000
The appointment of "non-Azhar" female scholars as theologians, and ignoring those who have graduated from the Azhar has provoked a controversy specially after the case of [a certain woman called] Shereen who taught women Islamic religion without obtaining the relevant permission while dozens of Al...
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