Date of source: Wednesday, February 24, 1999
The Grand Imam of the Azhar is a respectable scholar and a shrewd jurist who opens his heart to different opinions. He welcomes a dialogue with anyone on condition that he sticks to the rules of dialogue.
Date of source: Thursday, February 18, 1999 to Wednesday, February 24, 1999
Many young people are coming to believe that Urfi marriage is the only legitimate alternative to premarital sex, which is condemned as sinful. Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, called upon the government to ban Urfi marriages at a Fair seminar last week, saying that "these...
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 17, 1999
An overview of the position of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, February 1, 1999
After the passage of more than 20 years since the first attempt at issuing a unified Personal Status Law binding all Christian denominations, an agreement has finally been reached in the last couple of days. Rose al-Yūsif obtained the full text of the Personal Status Law for the Copts and describes...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 20, 1999
The state honored the Coptic writer, Counselor Edward Ghali El-Zahabi, former Chief of the Court of State (hai’it Qadaya el-Dawla), an authority on the study of the rights of non-Muslims in an Islamic society, and a former member of the People’s Assembly, on the occasion of the Holy Mulid of the...
Date of source: Monday, January 11, 1999
Wa’il El-Ibrashi explains in this article the thoughts of Dr. Abdel Shahin who wrote a book on Adam who was born from a father and a mother and not from clay as the Qur’an teaches. Dr. Shahin’s book has been attacked by sheikh Morgan from Saudi Arabia.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 6, 1999
Many donations are given at mosques associated with members of the Prophet Mohammed’s family, like Sayeda Zeinab or Al-Hussein, or those in which a shrine or mausoleum has been erected to the glory of pious and revered figures.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 30, 1998
Did the Islamist project fail or does it continue to form a government in waiting? Interview with the Tunisian sheikh Rashed Al-Ghenoushi (57) who lives in exile in London.
Date of source: Sunday, December 20, 1998
False claims are made that Islam violates human rights. The notion of human rights in the West is used to make false claims against Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 10, 1998
What was published in the Sunday Telegraph and other US newspapers [the Sunday Telegraph is published in the United Kingdom- editor] in terms of paid advertisement comes from a very small minority of Copts living abroad, whose number does not exceed seven and are known by name. They paid more than...