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Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
Ramadān al-Baih states the criteria for a good, reliable muftī.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Salīm
al-‘Awa criticizes the
abilities of the Shaykh of al-Azhar in drawing up
fatwás, since he is not a specialist in Islamic
jurisprudence.
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2006
The Muftī of
Egypt, ‘Alī Jum‘ah,
rejects charges levelled against official religious figures that
they only serve the government’s point of
view and justifies his fatwá which does not advise wearing the
niqāb.
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 1997
Subtitle: 1- The leader of the organization says, "When Dr. Yehia Ismael said that Hanafy was an apostate, we decided to kill him" 2- The one who was supposed to carry out the operation says, "The plan was to kill him with penknives. I have trained on how to do this in Nozha" 3- An official...
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 1997
The author criticises the fatwa declaring Dr. Hassan Hanafy to be an apostate and explains how Dr. Hanafy’s work was taken out of context, and twisted to imply that he opposed Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 1997
Subtitles:1- Dr. Tantawy: She who drew this nasty picture deserves death. The Mufti demands the Israeli government and men of religion declare their position from concerning this immoral action.2- Men of religion: "This is a declaration of war against Islam".3- Arabic newspapers: "It is the most...
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
Zaynab ‘Abd Allāh writes about the latest controversial fatwá by Jamāl
al-
Bannā about smoking during fasting. She claims that the fatwá is only meant to distract
people’s
attention since there is nothing logic about it.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Dr. Wā’il ‘Aziz
comments on
the importance of ijtihād and the benefit of having different fatwás on certain
topics.
Date of source: Thursday, June 22, 2006
In an attempt to curb the sea of fatwas, the Azhar has recently submitted a proposal to the People’s Assembly, in which it called for introducing legislation to criminalize the issuance of fatwas by unqualified Muslim scholars, Muhammad Khalīl writes.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Shaykh Tantāwī of the
Azhar denied in an
interview that the top Sunni Muslim institution is incapable of fulfilling its role, indicating
that the
Azhar is no longer sending a good number of teachers to Arab and Islamic countries purely for economic
reasons.
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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.