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49. Islam is suitable for every era and place
Date of source: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Al-Bannā supports Dr Zaynab Radwān’s calls for equality between men and women in testimony and for non-Muslims wives to inherit from their Muslim husbands.
15. Surprise: Both al-Ghazali and Jad al-Haq supported "the testimony of a woman" without knowing the researcher’s name
Date of source: Monday, March 31, 2008
Dr. Zaynab Radwān has stated that most Qur’ānic references to witnesses do not make any reference to gender. Some references fully equate the testimony of males and females.
19. Dr. Zaynab Radwan: nothing in the Qur’an nor in the Sunnah that bans the testimony of women
Date of source: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The author interviews the under-secretary of the People’s Assembly Dr. Zaynab Radwān on her recent call for a legislation to make the testimony of men and women equal.
43. A People’s Assembly deputy speaker calls for changes in the Islamic rules on inheritance and testimony
Date of source: Monday, March 17, 2008
Dr. Zaynab Radwān, the deputy speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly created heated debates in Egypt when she stated that a woman’s testimony in court is equal to that of man and that the non-Muslim wife of a Muslim husband should enjoy the same rights to inherit from her husband. The...
8. Al-Turabi is not qualified to issue fatwás, Azhar scholars say
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...
11. Azhar scholars refute fatwas by al-Turabi
Date of source: Friday, June 30, 2006
The author reviews the discussions in a symposium hosted by a group of senior Muslim scholars about the fatwas given recently by Hasan al- Turābī which sparked shock waves in the Muslim world as they contradicted firmly-established beliefs about the hijāb and the impermissibility of...
19. An Azhar scholar calls for equating testimonies of men and women
Date of source: Thursday, September 4, 2003
Dr. Elwi Amin, professor at the Azhar University, calls for equality between men and women in testimony. He argues that the Qur´anic verse saying “And get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses” [Sura 2: 282...
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