Ijtihad Network Islamic Jurisprudence
Extremist interpretations and narratives of Islam, though still representing a small minority of the...
January, 2017
December, 2016
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28 December
Conversation with a Wahhabi
Wahhabism is a diseased ideology anchored in hatred and exclusionism, I think that we have a long way to go before...
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20 December
Al-Azhar Imam Urges to End Violence against Myanmar Muslim
Ahmed al-Tayyeb urged the elimination of injustice on the Muslim minority in Myanmar, as well as...
September, 2016
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24 September
Shia Cleric Offers Friday Prayer with Sunnis in India
As a step towards bridging gap between Shias and Sunnis and sending out a message of a common Muslim platform, director of Hajj and Pilgrimage Research Center of Iran offered Friday prayer with Sunnis at Lucknow mosque...
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19 September
Nigerian Muslims Warn against Removing Students’ Hijab
MSSN said in a statement on Sunday that schools and teachers must uphold the ruling by the Lagos Court of Appeal, which found in July that a ban on the headscarf violated the religious freedoms of Muslim girls...
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18 September
Wahhabism Are no Welcome within the Sunni Fold
Wahhabism - and its associated takfirism - are no longer welcome within the Sunni fold said Sunni Clerics in Grozny Conference...
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14 September
Where Do ISIS Come from, and how Do We Overcome Them?
The problem of ISIS didn’t start two years ago but the doctrine of “puritanical” Islam can actually be dated back to over 1300 years ago in the form of the now redundant Khawarij...
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14 September
Reclaiming the Hajj: Time for True Muslim Management
the time has come to reclaim the Hajj by placing the pilgrimage and the sacred sites under the supervision and control of a consortium of Muslim leaders...
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11 September
Saudi grand mufti ‘not to deliver Hajj sermon’
Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh will not be delivering this year’s Hajj sermon, Saudi media have announced. AP cited the Al-Riyadh newspaper as saying on Saturday that Al Sheikh will not be delivering this year’s speech, without explaining why. It will be the first time in more ...
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6 September
al-Azhar cleric excludes Salafists from Sunnis
Saudi clerics have reacted angrily to recent remarks by Egyptian Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al–Tayeb, who excluded Salafists from Sunnis during a religious conference in Chechnya, Russia. During a conference in Grozny, Chechnya, Sheikh Tayeb said that Salafists were not Sunnists, while he was defining what is meant by Sunnism. The ...
