Date of source:
Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi issued a Fatwá rendering films and television series with corrupted female characters are H...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 19, 2004
Religious freedom is a modern term that has occupied the minds of many scholars and intellectuals. What does religious freedom mean to the moderates, how do some try to deny that freedom, and could religion be forced onto someone? Dr. Youssef al-Qaradawi will answer these questions.
Date of source:
The recent statement by the Shaykh of Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi in which he said that the French government has the right to impose a ban on the H...
Date of source:
More than twenty-five articles in the Arabic newspapers are dedicated to the issue of eliminating religious signs in French schools and its relationship to secularism. President Jacques Chirac?s speech on this issue has provoked contradictory reactions, not only inside the French community,...
Date of source:
Magdy Khalil, a Coptic writer in the US, wrote a series of three articles in Watani
newspaper under a general title "A Returnee from Cairo." In this series, he comments on the conditions of Copts in
Egypt. al-Arabi, mouthpiece of the Nasserist Party, and Islamic independent Aqidati highly...
Date of source:
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa that allows physicians to discontinue the life equipment used for the person who is clinically dead or whose brain stem is dead. Al-Qaradawi stressed that the fatwa is based on medical researches as well as on the Shari?a. He added that body organs of such...
Date of source:
One of the issues that surfaced after September 11 is the issue of "religious discourse" and its importance in showing that Islam is not a religion of violence and terrorism. Articles covered in this press review show what kind of religious discourse is needed today and whether there are Western...
Date of source:
The war on Iraq has ended. However, the role religion plays in it is still questioned. Some authors believe it cannot be viewed outside a religious framework and others warn against the danger of associating it with religion.
Date of source:
The Islamic Research Institute issued a fatwa to the effect that jihad against the US in its war on Iraq is an individual duty on all Muslims. The fatwa has received both positive and negative comments and is reported to have raised the anger of the US Embassy in Cairo.
Date of source:
The fatwa of Sheikh Nabawi El-Eish about the Iraqi Transitional Ruling Council did not only cause embarrassment for the Azhar but it also showed how divided the Azhar is. The Sheikh of the Azhar rejected the fatwa and said that Egyptian religious scholars are not allowed to give fatwas concerning a...