Date of source: Tuesday, January 29, 2002
The article is a comment on Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi’s fatwa that allows a non-Muslim wife who converts to Islam to stay with her non-Muslim husband. The author believes that this fatwa is an independent judgment on the part of Sheikh Al-Qaradawi.
He asks Muslim scholars and jurisprudents to give...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 24, 2002
A law student at Cairo University has brought a court action demanding the abolishment of the curricula of the faculty of law claiming that it calls for polytheism and does not conform to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2003
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, head of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, denied what was reported about him asking the US administration to pressure the Egyptian government to enforce democracy. "I did not ask anyone to do this. I am the one who pressures and asks for applying democracy because...
Date of source: Friday, September 12, 2003
The article is an interview with the Egyptian Minister of Endowments about the religious discourse in Egypt. He denied what has been reported lately about the intention of the ministry to unify the Friday sermons. He stressed that renewing the religious discourse is needed and that the ministry has...
Date of source: Sunday, September 14, 2003
The writer criticizes the idea of racial discrimination in the Arab world. The fact that Arabs do not acknowledge this, does not mean it does not exist. The article is based on the experience with an Egyptian cap driver in America.
Date of source: Friday, September 12, 2003
German expert Rudolph Sindler, who is working in an engineering project in Upper Egypt, converted to Islam and married an Egyptian. He said he converted to Islam because of its tolerance and mercy.
See also art. 27.
Date of source: Monday, August 18, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar called on the youth, who misunderstand Islam and think that extremism is something good, to reconsider their ideologies through dialogue with Muslim scholars
Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Egyptian authorities hold talks with the US to release a Copt detained by US forces at the Egyptian church in Baghdad.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim said that the war on Iraq has been a warning sign for undemocratic regimes in the world and that it may encourage political reform in the Middle East region.
Date of source: Friday, July 11, 2003
The Islamic Research Institute decided not to ban books that are not in accordance with the Islamic Shari’a. The institute will only respond to the wrong ideas expressed in such books.