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Biography: ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī Bayyūmī
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2005
Born in 1940, Dr. ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī Bayyūmī is an Egyptian professor at the Usūl al-Dīn (Fundamentals of Religion) Faculty in the Azhar University in Cairo. He has addressed many issues related to fiqh, as well as issues related to culture and politics. According to Dr. Bayyūmī, the renewal of...
38. Giving Nuance to Jansen’s ‘Religious Roots of Muslim Violence’
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2012
Dutch scholar Johannes Jansen contributed an essay – ‘The Religious Roots of Muslim Violence’ – to a 2011 anthology entitled, ‘Terrorism: Ideology, Law, and Policy’. In it he makes the case that violence and terrorism are part and parcel of the Islamic religion, traceable to its root sources at...
11. Islam is against despotism, asserted late scholar Kawakibi;
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
In his book Features of Despotism, cAbd al-Rahman al-Kawākibī, who was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1854 and died in Egypt in 1902, defines despotism as an epithet of a government that has absolute limitless powers that stops at no law and respects no voice of its people. Kawākibī views that Islam,...
2. Dr. Selim Al-Awa in his special interview: The Khilafa system is not inspiredSubtitle: My Belief: Egypt is a Muslim country... Its Right-doing is a lot, and its Wrong-doing is little
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 1999
Dr. Mohammed Selim Al-Awa is an Islamic thinker and well-known law professor. In this continuation article of an interview of him he expresses his opinions on Shura and democracy, Khilafa (the Caliphate), different schools of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and the issue of non-Muslim minorities in...
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