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Background: Maḥjūb al-Tijānī is the president of the Sudan Human Rights Organisation in the branch of Cairo and Ḥamūd Fātḥā al-Raḥman, the secretary general of the same organization, discuss the atrocities of the al-Turābī/al-Bashīr regime, and the means by which the Sudanese people are dealing...
Background: Dr. Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd (10.7.1943–5.7.2010) was an Egyptian Qurʾānic thinker and scholar. He is famous for his contextual interpretations of the Qurʾān, which sparked a lot of controversy amongst fundamentalist Islamic thinkers. In May 1992, Abū Zayd was in a position to get a...
Background: Father Christiaan van Nispen tot Sevenaer (15.3.1938 – 12.5.2016), often known as Father van Nispen, was a Jesuit priest, who is strongly involved in dialogue with Muslims. He says not to feel at all oppressed as a Christian in Egypt by Islamic militant groups, but argues instead that...
Conversion in Egypt is a complicated and thorny issue.
Few subjects are so sensitive in Egypt as the conversion from one religion to the other. It is often difficult to find out the truth in such stories with all of the possible interests involved, both of the convert and the people around him or her. One can obtain a better glimpse of the various...
In 1995, the Dutch Christian organization Open Doors asked me to look into the stories o
The appearance of Islamist movements in the society spread fears that they might take over power and apply the Islamic sharī'ah. According to the author of the article, Muslim scholars, inlcuding Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī, affirmed that applying the sharī'ah is righteous at all ages and places.
Muhammad ‘Abd al-Shakūr writes about the Azhar University and its need for change, starting with its syllabus. Ahmad ‘Abd al-Rahīm al-Sāyih, Professor of philosophy and Islamic studies, says that the Azhar needs to be protected from Wahābī, Muslim Brotherhood, and Salafī ideologies. Conflict of...
Dr. Ibrāhīm Habīb, President of United Copts of Great Britain, filed a lawsuit against Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī in Great Britain for soliciting the murder of Copts in his infamous Fatwá stating that apostates should be killed. al-Badrī said in response that the British government has no power over him...

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