Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2017
The Council of Senior Scholars issued a strong statement against President al-Sisi’s call for reviewing the legality of verbal divorce due to the seriousness of the phenomena, with rates reaching frightening levels that threaten the stability of the Egyptian family, and the fact that the divorce...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Beside resorting to all four schools of Islamic law, the Civil Code of Egypt allows recourse to mainly the Hanafi doctrine,. Legislation in Northern Egypt for example mainly allow recourse to the doctrine carrying the name of its founder Abu Hanīfa, whereas legislation in the South, and most of the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 10, 2016
The Muslim Brotherhood Organization expressed its dismay over the participation of Al-Azhar in the three-day international Islamic conference held lately in the capital of Chechnya, under the title “Who Are The Sunnis?”
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Interviewers: Quinta Smit and Eline Kasanwidjojo
Language of interview: English, Arabic
Interpreter: Dr. Wafāʾ Ḥafnī
Transcript: not mentioned
Approved: Requested and no objection received
Dr. Wafāʾ Hafnī, Dr. Sanā’ and Dr. Ishtihād; granddaughter and daughters of Ḥasan al-Bannā give personal...
Date of source: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Dr. Safwat Hegazy explained when, in his view, violence can be used: anyone can kill President Bashar al-Assad (Bashār al-Asad) because of his crimes against humanity. Also Israeli soldiers can be targeted since they are at war with Palestinians. This was prior to President Mursi’s removal from...
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This book was first published in 2012 by CIDT in Arabic. It was later translated into English, expanded with texts of Nushin Atmaca and Patricia Prentice and edited by Cornelis Hulsman with help of Jenna Ferrecchia and Douglas May.