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Jamāl al-Bannā is a household name in Egypt, where he is famous both in his own right, as a prominent and sometimes controversial Muslim intellectual and writer, and because of his brother Hass
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2007
Last week’s Egyptian press tended to reflect on the reasons behind and potential consequences of the eye-catching phenomenon of Niqāb-clad women prevailing in all classes of society.
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Muhammad Sayyed al-Ashmawi wrote a book titled "The Reality of Ḥijāb and the Pretext of the Ḥadīth.? He wrote that the way a person dresses is a life-affair [an issue of a personal choice] and has nothing to do with religion and that wearing a higab is not a conclusive religious ordinance....
Date of source: Saturday, January 20, 2007
The author gives evidences to prove that the Ḥijāb is never meant as a headscarf in the Holy Qur’ān, believing that it cannot be a religious Farīdah.
Date of source: Saturday, July 22, 2006
Exchanging greetings between men and women is allowed in Islām, Shaykh al-
Qaradāwī states, indicating that the voice of a woman is not cawrah. The
wives of the prophet, with all the constraints imposed on them, were permitted to talk to men and to respond to
their questions from behind a curtain...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
A number of Muslim scholars have urged the Azhar’ s Islamic Research Academy to refute the recent controversial fatwas of the Sudanese spiritual leader, Dr. Hasan al- Turābī.
Date of source: Thursday, February 28, 2002
Dr. Abdel Azeem Al-Mat’ani rejects the opinions Khalil Abdel Kareem as expressed in his book “Al-Nass Al-Mu’assis Wa Mujtama’u.” Abdel-Kareem believes that the Qur’an is an earthly made and not a heavenly revealed book and that its verses came up either to justify the mistakes of the Prophet and...
Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.