Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2006
The author of the article cites a few examples of the fatwas that have resulted in controversy amongst Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, January 13, 2006
Bibliotheca Alexandrina is organizing a conference to discuss Islam and the civil state. Arab intellectuals who have conducted research on the topic will be invited.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
A discussion of the Qur’ānic basis for hudoud, the punishment of specific crimes, and how the hudoud should be applied in society.
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2006
U.S. political science researchers claim that establishing peace through democracy in the Muslim world is a theory doomed to failure. The author suggests that democratic Islam is now even more of a threat to the West than Bin Lādin.
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2006
The scenes of the national unity iftār [fast-breaking meal during the holy Muslim month of Ramadān] and the shaykh of the Azhar sitting next to the pope on official occasions no longer reflect the new reality.
Date of source: Thursday, January 5, 2006
Abu Zayd, the Egyptian intellectual who was declared an apostate, claims that Egyptian universities are intellectually stagnant and that modern ways of thought must be introduced.
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2006
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd, a celebrated modern scholar of Qur’ānic studies, who fled to the Netherlands after the Egyptian courts ordered that he be forcibly divorced from his wife on charges of apostasy, argues for reform of religious thought and an end to corruption.
Date of source: Sunday, December 25, 2005
Yousuf Sidhom, in his final article of the Coptic expatriates conference in Washington, presents excerpts of the papers that carried concepts vital for the future phase of Egypt’s reform.
Date of source: Saturday, December 24, 2005 to Friday, December 30, 2005
Qutb’s ideology was the driving force for many Islamic groups, some of whom, such as al-Takfīr Wa al-Hijra, have gone to extremes.
Date of source: Sunday, December 24, 2006 to Saturday, December 30, 2006
‘Abd al-Rāziq, professor of sharī‘a and theology at the Dār al-‘Uloum says that his study of the names of Allāh has taken two years of immense research of over 50 encyclopedias comprising 20,000 books. He elaborated that many of the names of Allāh are not among the 99 attributes of God, known to...