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For the third week, Pope Benedict’s controversial remarks on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad have made headlines in Egyptian national and independent newspapers. A number of Muslim intellectuals devoted their columns to refute claims about the spread of Islam by the sword. Some Muslim scholars...
The Egyptian muftī, Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘ah, was severely slammed by a number of Muslim scholars for his recent fatwá, in which he permits mobile phone companies to install their towers on mosque minarets.
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.
The Muftī speaks in this interview about the death penalty, which, he said, should still be in effect to guarantee that the society will not be overwhelmed with vice. He criticizes countries that have legalized prostitution, narcotics and abortion.
Muhammad Fawzī asks Dr.‘Alī Jum‘ah about the differences between the Sunnī and Shī‘ah.
Sayyid Ghannām writes about the latest controversial fatwá issued by the muftī. The fatwá argues that a woman who delivered a child four years after her husband’s death is not adulterous and that pregnancy can span more than nine months.
The author criticizes the fatwá of Dr. ‘Ali Jum‘ah, which makes it permissible for mobile phone networks to fix antennas to the minarets of mosques.
The author highlights statements of Egyptian Muftī ‘alī Jum‘a on many important issues related to Islam and Egyptian society.
The Egyptian Muftī ‘Alī Jum‘a was interviewed by Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper during his visit to Bosnia, where he discussed many important issues concerning the Muslims in the world.
Are women allowed to be heads of states under Islamic sharī‘a? The decision of well-known feminist, Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī, to run for president during the elections of 2004 was opposed by a large number of Muslim scholars, who argue that the physiological nature of women prevents them from...

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