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Date of source: Wednesday, May 8, 2002
The Grand Imam believes that the Palestinian operations against Israelis are martyrdom operations if committed against militants and suicidal ones if against civilians. Sheikh Al-Qaradawi believes that they are martyrdom operations whether against militants or civilians. It is foolish and useless...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Khalil Abdel Kareem´s book ”Al-Nass Al-Mu´assis Wa Mujtama´u” caused great controversy in the religious circles in Egypt. Some people asked for the confiscation of the book, which is believed to celebrate the ideas of some orientalists, defame the Prophet and his companions and raise...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002 to Friday, March 22, 2002
In this article, Egypt´s new Mufti speaks about the duties of Dar El-Ifta´ and the issues on which it can and cannot give fatwas. He said that it is important for specialists beside religious scholars to be consulted on issues such as genetic engineering, banking and medicine. This makes the fatwas...
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Many Azhar scholars have rejected female circumcision and even criminalized it based on the notion that the practice has never been a duty or obligation in Islam and there are no texts in the Qur’ān or sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] that encourage it.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
He supports the freedom of religion as an assertion to Allāh’s instructions: a man needs not register his conviction, adding that this principle represented the spirit of Islam.
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: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī blames the backwardness of Muslims on three persons, namely "the extremist Indian writer Abu al-‘Ala al-Mawdudī, the illiterate Bedouin Mufti who spearheads the Wahābī call ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Bin Bāz and Mullah Muhammad ‘Umar who applies his fatwas with whips and guns in...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
A recent fatwa by the muftī of Egypt, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a, allowing Muslims to sell liquor to non-Muslims in non-Muslim countries, has stirred up wide controversy among Egyptian Muslim scholars.
Date of source: Thursday, November 17, 2005
Qur’ānic verses and the call to prayer have been recently used as mobile ringtones by young Egyptians, raising concerns among some groups.
Date of source: Monday, October 17, 2005
The ‘Ulamā give their comments about the new methods of offering fatwas over the phone or Internet.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.