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Parliament to discuss law allowing preachers to issue fatwas
Parliament is currently gearing to vote on a law granting preachers affiliated with the Ministry of the Religious Endowments the right to issue fatwas (religious edicts), a step that angered several top religious institutions affiliated with Al-Azhar and Dar Al-Ifta. The law has caused controversy among preachers in the country’s religious institutions. The law is …
No scholar is role model, preachers are not good for Dawah, new preachers are a trend that will soon disappear: senior imam in Awqaf Ministry
The religious institutions must be unified and kept independent, Al-Azhar lost its impact when it became Egyptian
Preachers demand salary increase, resignation of Endowments Minister
The demonstrators demanded to have the same rights as Al-Azhar preachers and government employees
Despite friendly statements, Al-Azhar continues to oppose unified Friday sermon
Sermon should not divide Muslims, says Minister of Religious Endowments
Al-Azhar rejects unified written Friday sermon
Ministry of Religious Endowments imposed the decision to allegedly “regulate religious discourse”
Unified Friday sermon is not oppression: endowments minister
Head of the preaching department reasserts that the concept is not political
Upcoming unified Friday sermon to discuss ‘cleanliness’
While a number of preachers have expressed discontent with the condition, a ministry official says 50% of preachers agree with the unified sermons
Top clerics reject Ministry of Endowment’s unified sermon decision
In the second week of the newly adopted directive, Friday’s sermon addressed chastity and purity
14 Salafi leaders acquitted
Defendants expected to be released Monday, to be put under probation
Preachers divided on unified written Friday sermon
On Friday, Minister of Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa read out the sermon from a paper in front of state officials in Amr Ibn Al-Aas mosque
The new preachers and the statues of social justice in Egypt
Aridity: It is not so odd that the new preachers are dressed in the robes of hermits. What feels oddest is the state of caste they embody. Finding their origins in a wealthier class has inevitably and unwillingly presented them as preachers to that very social class, which is not degrading, as the existence of …
Are the so-called guardians of religion taking it too far?
Muslims faced by controversial fatwas while state tightens grip on mosques
Preachers demand end to precarious employment
The protesters estimate that there are approximately 3,000 to 4,000 subjected to these precarious conditions, working under contracts of indefinite duration or without contracts at all.
Endowments ministry fires preacher, bans Imam and launches investigations
The preacher is accused of leaving Salafi affiliated signs inside a mosque in Matariya
Company to be established to oversee mosques
New boards of directors of mosques to comprise youth, says Minister of Endowments
Calls for a ‘religious revolution’
Al-Sisi’s call for a “religious revolution” was criticised, but was not followed by protests
Ministry of Endowment urges Egyptians to limit prayer to formal mosques
“Performing the Friday prayer in public squares mixes between the political and the religious,” says the ministry
Editor’s letter: Time for the cool sheikhs
In 2010 I was invited to a lecture by Amr Khaled, organised by Regents College in London, while I was there for some media mission. The lecture was considered very important, as it was to discuss coexistence in Islam, in a city that has one of the most visible Muslim minorities in Europe. For those …