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Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 1999
Nowadays, the newspapers are witnessing a number of articles that are planting doubt about the things which are fixed in Islam and do not change such as the Sunna, the Sharia, Islamic jurisprudence and Al-Iktihad (explanation).
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 1999
The general conference ended its sessions yesterday with 7 key recommendations.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
Delegations from 75 Islamic countries and six international Islamic countries and six international Islamic organizations participating in the 11th Cairo International Islamic Conference will tomorrow declare the recommendations of their conference.
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
In the recent speech made the dean of the Al-Azhar Islamic Theology Faculty, he called for a new Islamic jurisprudence, accusing the jurists of today of not thinking over the religious issues. This writer cautions that because the dean is a professor of philosophy he has no right to discuss the...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
The theological Islamic scholars warn against the sudden movement of ijtihaad [independent judgment on religious issues] that might arouse civil strife among the Muslims and the scholars. Dr. Abd Al-Sabour Marzouq, the secretary general of the Council of Islamic Affairs, says that the one who...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Egypt’s largest Islamist militant group, the Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya, has announced several new initiatives as part of its effort to switch from violent opposition to the government to a legal alternative, its lawyers said.
Date of source: Friday, May 14, 1999
Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti of 25 years is dead, but his Islamic missionary efforts will continue via his extensive writings and an Internet web page.
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999 to Wednesday, May 5, 1999
The Court of Cassation recently ruled that a husband’s infertility does not constitute sufficient grounds for his wife to file for divorce. The court justified its ruling with the statement that the aim of marriage is not procreation, but the exercise of mu’adda [love, friendship] and rahma [mercy...
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999 to Wednesday, May 5, 1999
Sheikh Nasr Farid Wasel, the Grand Mufti of the Republic, took parliamentarians by surprise last week when he objected to a government-sponsored draft law imposing an entrance tax on a wide range of places of entertainment.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 1999
Egypt’s mufti Nasr Farid Wasel is a staunch critic of the theories proposed to update the principles of the old schools of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). He is particularly opposed to the leaders of this campaign, Professor Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi and writer Gamal Al-Banna.
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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.