Innovation hotheads are like Ivan Petrovich Pavlov’s dogs
If the world of Islam is put into a snow globe, and an outsider peers in, he might be forgiven for thinking that those little people walking about on the streets are Pavlov’s dogs. Every time the outsider whispers the word bida, the people inside would go insane and start beating one another with shoes, [...]
Muslim Brotherhood condemns Cairo bombing
IkhwanWeb: A Bomb Blast Hits Egypt’s Stability
A bomb explosion hit the famous touristic area, Khan Al-Khalili bazaar in the area of Al-Hussain in Cairo, a French tourist was killed and about 17 other people were injured, mostly foreign tourists. … An instant statement by MB Leader, Muhammad Mahdi Akef, that came to express Muslim brotherhood’s position on [...]
Shaykh Tantawi resigning
MEMRI: Al-Azhar Sheikh Aims To Step Down
Sources at Al-Azhar have revealed that Al-Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi intends to submit his resignation to Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Natif, due to deteriorating health and due to his advanced age.
Academic flogged for sipping coffee with woman
Saudi prof faces flogging for having coffee with woman
Muhammad Ali Abu Raziza, a psychology lecturer at the university of Mecca, has been sentenced to 150 lashes and eight months in jail after the religious police caught him with a woman in a coffee shop…
Abandoning weak hadiths
Over the last week or so, I had the occasion to re-read Prof Hashim Kamali’s “Hadith Methodology”, and was struck by statement he made about Da’if, or weak, Hadiths:
Many prominent contemporary ulama including Ahmad Muhammad Shakir, Nasir al-Din al-Albani, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ajaj al-Khatib and Manna al-Qattan have advocated the view that the Da’if should be [...]
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