Date of source: Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Muḥammad al-Badrī criticizes Dr. Muḥammad ‘Imārah’s position. He believes that as a scholar in the Azhar, Dr. cImārah should not adopt such destructive ideas that seem to oppose the notion of citizenship.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Dr. Ibrāhīm al-Sāyiḥ discusses the idea of omitting religion from Egyptian identity card.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
An Israeli historian states in a book entitled, ’Bloody Passover’ that Jews murdered Christians during the Middle Ages so that their blood could be used to make unleavened bread for Passover.
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2007
Egyptian security forces recently launched a massive drive against leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, since group-related students gave a military style rally in the Azhar University a few months ago [AWR, week 51, 2006, article 26]. Members of the group say that the crackdown aims at removing the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
‘Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jamā‘ah’ [The Majority of Muslims] have been the majority of the Islamic nation in all times and in every place.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Discussions about Maḥmūd Ṭāhā’s work 22 years after his execution.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The article discusses the obdurate Israeli authorities’ excavations underneath the Aqsá Mosque, the third Muslims’ Qiblah, and the third al-Ḥarām al-sharif [the Holy compound].
Date of source: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The author reviews a study on the increasing trends of religiousness in the West which threatens secularism.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The article discusses the conference of ’The Minority in the Middle East’ headed by the Chief of the emigrated Copts, cĀdil Abādīr. The conference is mainly about minorities’ rights in the Middle East.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 7, 2007
There is no median between a religious state and a civil state. Many observers consider the proposed constitutional amendments to be encouraging political Islamic groups. While Muslim groups deny any contradiction between article two of the Egyptian Constitution and the principles of citizenship,...