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Date of source: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Usāmah Nabīl reports on the different opinions concerning a draft law to regulate the process of issuing Fatwás.
Date of source: Monday, June 18, 2007
Religious channels are
planting the seeds of intolerance and extremism in the minds of young people through using unqualified clerics on their
programs instead of official Azhar scholars.
Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2007
The articles talks about the release of 130 members of the Jihād Organization. Muntaṣir al-Zayyāt, lawyer of the Islamic groups, described the release of the Jihād prisoners as a “positive” step.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The article talks about the questions raised in relation to the significance of the Zūmurs brothers’ support of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah’sannouncement concerning the fiqh reviews.
Date of source: Saturday, June 2, 2007
Dr. Rif‘at al-Sa‘īd writes about the system of khalīfah [Islamic Caliphate] in Egypt. He describes its rise and fall, and the significant factors involved therein.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Nabīl ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ comments on the modern trend of accusing intellectuals and writers of apostasy under the cover of religion.
Date of source:
Egyptian best selling author and Rose al-Yousuf columnist, Sayyid al-Qimnī, was reported to have received a death threat via e-mail signed by the name of Abu Jihād al-Qi‘qā‘, who is believed to have links with the extremist Islamist group Qā‘idat al-Rāfidayn.
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
Dr. Ahmad Al-Raysouni, scholar on the fundamentals of Islamic fiqh, researched the concept of majority rule in Islam and what the Shari’a says about this issue. He says in the introduction to his research that there is no straightforward statement [in the Qur’an] that tells Muslims to follow the...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Mulhim al-‘Isawī writes a feature about Shaykh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī. Al-‘Isawī investigates al-Qaradāwī’s relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, provides a brief biography and some of al-Qaraḍāwī’s most notable Fatwás, his attacks on the Azhar, and support for Ḥizb Allāh.
Date of source: Sunday, April 15, 2007
A fatwá on permitting transplant surgeries has caused debates amongst Islamic scholars over the definition of death.
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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.