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7. Amr Khaled and his fellow modern preachers rival Amr Diab and his fellow pop singers
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
The article tries to answer some questions about modern preachers, such as, Amr Khaled. These questions are: Do Egyptian families entrust their children to them because they attract the attention of young people from moral deviation and from joining terrorist groups? Or do they, in a way, pave the...
10. Turbans rebel against Shaykh of Azhar
Date of source: Thursday, September 29, 2005
The Front of Azhar Scholars contested the statement by the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar in which he said the normalization with Israel was halāl.
11. State’s standing and extremists’ laws
Date of source: Saturday, November 13, 2004
In previous issues I have focused on the “must-know religious information” and the consequent do’s and don’ts which if violated would, according to jurisprudential conditions, lead to apostasy, punishable by death if attempts to secure repentance ended up in failure. We have learnt that this rule...
11. Sheikhs fanning flames at the Azhar
Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2004
The Grand Imam of the Azhar, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, has once submitted a draft law to the People’s Assembly on the development of the Azhar but the top Muslim Imam was not aware then that he was treading on a landmine. A fierce campaign of opponents have accused him that he wants to...
5. Dr. Yahia Ismail was dismissed from the Azhar University
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2001
Sheikh Yahia Ismail was dismissed from the ’Usul Ed-din [fundamentals of religion] Faculty, at the Azhar University. He had objected before to the Sheikh of the Azhar receiving the Israeli ambassador to Cairo - which the Grand Imam considered an insult directed against him.
11. The Mufti: The operations in which fighters risk their own lives are jihad and the Palestinians defending themselves by any method is legal
Date of source: Monday, December 10, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt affirmed that the Palestinians defence of themselves by any method is legal. Counselor Tareq Al-Bishri believed that the killing of the civilians is not wrong as a civilian is not related only to the uniform but is related to the attitude he adopts. Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin said...
25. Controversy among Egyptian scholars about the fatwa allowing a wife who has joined Islam to remain with her non-Muslim husband
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2001
Scholars in Egypt are divided between rejecting and supporting the fatwa issued by the European Council for Fatwa and Research. The fatwa allows non-Muslim women who converted to Islam to stay with their still non-Muslim husbands. The Islamic Research Institute and the Egyptian Fatwa House...
4. "Formation period," a new feast for sheikhs!
Date of source: Wednesday, June 6, 2001
Khalil Abdel-Karim, the author of "The formation period in the life of Mohammed," reached the conclusion that the first wife of Mohammed was Christian. He also discussed Mohammed’s many marriages. The author believes that there is nothing wrong in discussing such things and that the Azhar Scholars...
2. Front in favor of calling the nation unbelievers!
Date of source: Saturday, June 9, 2001 to Friday, June 15, 2001
The author argues that Egyptian society can turn against those [The Azhar Scholars Front] who accuse it of apostasy. It can even give evidence that they work for the interests of bodies that aim to eliminate the cultural role of Egypt and accuse them of distracting Egyptians from their real...
2. Using Islam in power games
Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2001
"The formation period in the life of Mohammed" written by Khalil Abdel-Karim caused widespread arguments. Dr. Abdel-Azim Al-Matani of the Azhar University accused the author of harming Islam and disfiguring the Prophet Mohammed. The book claimed that Mohammed imagined receiving the Qur’an from...

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