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Date of source: Friday, February 28, 2003
Dr. Soad Saleh, comparative jurisprudence professor at the Azhar University, demanded that an office be allocated to a female jurist at Dar Al-Ifta, so that women may present their inquiries to her and receive answers.
Date of source: Monday, March 3, 2003
Overview of opinions voiced in the conference of the liberation of women in Islam. The conference discussed women in the Qur´an, the Sunna and the fiqh and the liberation of women between the Islamic and Western views. It discussed the contents of the encyclopedia written by the late Abdel...
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2005
The Faculty of Islamic-Arabic Studies at the Azhar University for Girls will hold an international conference in Cairo next March. The conference will address issues of concern to Muslim women, with reference to Islamic legislation but also taking into consideration the impact of western culture.
Date of source: Friday, June 14, 2002
Wearing a veil has been widely criticized so this article looks at its history. It existed before Islam and is found in all of the heavenly religions, but only its use by Muslims causes comment. The veil is a symbol of chastity and purity not a political slogan.
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Dr. Soad Saleh, the head of the department of compared jurisprudence at the Azhar University, proposed her idea of creating a committee for women's fatwas to be affiliated with the Dar Al-Iftaa [House of fatwa-giving] to the current Grand Mufti Dr. Clearly enough, Dr. Soad has been totally...
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2002
The new Mufti of Egypt decided to entrust the task of issuing fatwas to the Islamic Research Institute. The author believes this not to be a good decision, as the Institute has charged many intellectuals with kufr [unbelief] and is not known for defending the freedom of opinion. He suggested the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Sheikh Atiya Saqr stressed that he would not withdraw his statement about prohibiting shaking hands between men and women, as this is stated in a true hadith. He said that he would not take the trouble and respond to those who criticized his fatwa, as some of them deny the sunna. He added that if...
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Sheikh Attiya Saqr issued a fatwa to the effect that shaking hands between men and women is haram [religiously forbidden], as men touches the hands of women with the aim of satisfying their desires. Some Azhar professors and Islamic thinkers believed the fatwa to be strange and extremist.
Date of source: Thursday, June 19, 2003
Basing on the fatwa of Sheikh Dr. Sabry Abdel Ra’ouf, a lawyer filed a request to declare some artists who retired and wore the veil and later took it off as apostate. The author approaches those artists as well as religious scholars to comment on the fatwa.
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2005
The feminist movement in Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Morocco does not give up requesting women’s rights.
The number of national councils, non-governmental organizations and feminist associations is growing.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.