Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Shaymā’ ‘Abd al-Laṭīf interviewed Dr. Muṣṭafá al-Shak‘ah, member of the Islamic Research Academy, on Islamic-related issues such as his opinion on the recent controversial Fatwás, the role of the academy in censoring books, and the recent calls to purify religious books from weak Ḥadīths.
Date of source:
How could Sufism, which has been penetrated by some pretenders and impostors, return to its golden age?
Real Sufism is synonymous with spiritual and mental purity, out of the love for God and His messenger, away from any sentiments of envy, venom, hatred or grudges. Sufism has been penetrated by...
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2001
The Azhar Scholars Front supported the Minister of Culture and urged him to clean the
Ministry by firing
more officials who are responsible for publishing libertine books. The Front listed 300
books for revision because
of immoral style.
Date of source: Thursday, October 5, 2006
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...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 4, 2006
The author argues that Islam has become a phobia in the West due to thinking
that Islam
threatens western civilization and people’s security. The media emphasizes this concept as a
reality.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The article praises a court ruling repealing a previous ruling that gave
Egypt’s nearly 1000
Bahā’īs the right to have their faith registered in official documents, with
opinions by
intellectuals that Bahā’ism is not a religion and that the only religions recognized in Egypt
are the
divine...
Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
Azhar scholars have slammed a court
ruling allowing a
Bahā’ī couple to have their religion identified on official documents.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradwi, the head of the European Fatwa Council, said that the Islamic Research Center did not acknowledge him. But the former rector of the Azhar, Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi and Dr. Mustafa Al-Shoka’a denied this and stressed that Al-Qaradawi is a great scholar and that there was no...
Date of source: Thursday, August 7, 2003
Dr. Fou´ad Zakariya, a professor of Philosophy, suggested secularism as a substitute for Islamic thinking, stressing that it is the solution for the intellectual rigidity Muslims suffer from. The author approaches a group of Muslim scholars of religion for comments, they all object to this opinion...
Date of source: Monday, August 11, 2003
The Islamic British Institute asked the Azhar for permission to translate nine chapters from the Qur´an. Some of the members of the Islamic Research Institute understood that it wanted to transliterate the Qur´an in Latin. It is impossible to have something like that in Egypt, but in some...