Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
Dr. al-Mat‘anī, a
scholar of the Azhar,
the top Sunni organization in the Muslim world, has criticized
Dā‘īya
cAmr Khālid who went to Denmark for dialogue with Danish
figures to explain the genuine
traditions of Islam, terming the initiative "hasty and random."
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
To revive the
Azhar, many professors and
scholars advocate choosing the shaykh of the Azhar by election
instead of appointment.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
An explanation of the Qur’ānic verse " Neither those who are not object of
Allah’s anger nor the misled" in order to negate the opinion that the "misled" are the Christians and "the
object of Allāh’s anger" are Jewish people.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The author tackles the criticism made by
Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī against the
Azhar for not being active in the cartoon crisis.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The EU is getting ready to launch a
dictionary to
accurately define Muslim cultural terminology, such as the words jihād,
"fundamentalist" and
"Islamist" in a bid to assert that there is no religion that compels its followers to
commit crimes in its
name.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The author tackles the recent crisis of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad which
has widened
the gap between Muslim and non-Muslim countries.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
The Document of Religious Rights, signed in April 2005 by the former head of
the Interfaith Dialogue
Committee, Dr. Fawzī al-Zifzāf, with visiting U.S. Christian clerics, has
been categorically rejected
by the Religious Affairs Committee of the People’s Assembly, on the grounds that
it "...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
The article highlights the second Scientific Meeting of Archaeologists, during
which experts focused on excavation and restoration works to save Islamic, Coptic and Jewish antiquities, as
well
as discussing recent archaeological finds.
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
The article presents a bold book by an Egyptian
pastor concerning the subject
of sex in marriage.
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2006
Despite having been banned by the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, Natana J. Delong-Bas’s ‘Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global
Jihad’ has received massive support from the Saudi government. Hanān Sulaymān provides a book review.