Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Dr. Husām ‘Afānah, a professor of the fundamentals of fiqh, responds to a question about whether a female student is religiously permitted to remove her Ḥijāb to abide by the regulations of her school.
Date of source: Monday, November 20, 2006
The author of the article, Nafīsah ‘Abd al-Fattāh, lashes out at Farūq Husnī, the Egyptian minister of culture, over his anti- Ḥijāb statements in which he described the Ḥijāb as a regressive trend in Egypt.
Date of source:
The Egyptian press exposed religious authorities’ and intellectuals’ points of view regarding the violent confrontations between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces; in his interview with al-Musawwar, the Shaykh of the Azhar condemned the Israeli trespassing of al-Aqsá mosque....
Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2006
Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, the grand
Muftī, writes about the most prolific narrators of hadīth in Islamic history.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
In a series of articles about the sources of Islamic legislation,
the Egyptian Muftī, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, explains how careful the companions
of the Prophet Muhammad were in transmitting and collecting the Prophet’s hadīths.
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
What
is life after death? Depictions
of hell and heaven differ between religions. The following article presents
images of life after death in Islam,
Judaism and Christianity.
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
Many hadīth were falsified over time. Islam
is a religion
that needs a renaissance to reveal its true image.
Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
A supplement published by the mouthpiece of the Ghad
Party, al-Ghad newspaper,
entitled "The worst 10 figure in Islamic history," has provoked strong
public reaction and led Islamic lawyer,
Mamdūh Ismā‘īl, to sue the newspaper. The
list of names included some of the
prophet’s companions and ‘...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Muslims and
Christian put the Virgin Mary in the highest rank among women. Many Qur’
ānic verses and
hadīth refer to this fact.
Date of source: Saturday, October 7, 2006 to Friday, October 13, 2006
Dr. Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī warns against the dangers
that fabricated
hadīths can pose to Islam.