Date of source: Saturday, July 12, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar, Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, called for preventing the publication of books that encourage terrorism. He did not give examples of such books but simply stated that these are books issued by terrorists and contain radical ideas.
Date of source: Friday, July 11, 2003
The Islamic Research Institute decided not to ban books that are not in accordance with the Islamic Shari’a. The institute will only respond to the wrong ideas expressed in such books.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 2003
The article gives the text of the legal reasoning given by the North Cairo Primary Court in a case, examined in 1997, concerning a book by Dr. Sayyed Al-Qimni, titled “The Lord of the Age and other Studies.” The Islamic Research Institute banned the book but the court allowed it.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 3, 2003
The article gives the second part of the text of the legal reasoning behind the ruling of the Administrative Court, which canceled the decision of the Azhar concerning banning a three-part religious book by Said Muhammad Hassan.
Date of source: Saturday, May 31, 2003
The head of the Administrative Court comments on its ruling that canceled the decision of the Azhar concerning banning a three-part religious book. He says that the author of the three books did not harm the Islamic faith, as he has only practiced Ijtihad.
Date of source: Friday, June 6, 2003
The Deputy of the Azhar comments on the ruling of the Administrative Court that canceled the decision of the Azhar concerning banning a three-part religious book by Said Muhammad Hassan. He says that Islamic Research Institute does not violate the freedom of thought as long as it does not...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 27, 2003
The article gives the text of the legal findings of the Administrative Court ruling, which canceled the decision of the Islamic Research Institute concerning banning a three-volume religious book by Said Muhammad Hassan.
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2005
In his new book al-Islām wa al-Dawla al-Madanīya [Islam and the civil state], Dr. cAbd al-Muctī Bayyoumī totally opposes the notion of a religious state and regards it as a big contradiction with the spirit of Islam. Moreover, he assures that the state of Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) was absolutely a...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2005
The Azhar’s Islamic Research Institute under Grand Imām Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī approved banning the publication of books that “foment sedition and cause rifts in the Arab and Muslim ranks.”
Date of source: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s novel “Soqout Al-Imam” [The Fall of the Imam] has been banned. Many
intellectuals have launched a campaign against banning whether by religious or political
authorities. But some intellectuals refused to support Al-Sa’adawi’s novel because they claimed
that has little...