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Al-Azhar And Her? How A Fatwa On Gender And Inheritance Threatens The Powerful Islamic Authority

March 13, 2024, Cairo, Egypt: The mosque is organizing a collective Iftar for the second year for foreign students, providing 4,000 meals per day, which totals 120,000 meals per month, as part of the humanitarian, religious, and patriotic role that Al-Azhar plays in serving and caring for its expatriate children, who are guests of Egypt, in Cairo, Egypt, on March 13, 2024. (Credit Image: © Mahmoud Elkhwas/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam has issued a new fatwa reaffirming that women should inherit half the share of men, citing Islamic tradition, a move that critics say entrenches gender inequality in Egypt’s legal and religious framework.

Al-Azhar’s rooting of the idea of ​​unfairness in inheritance division, based on the logic that men deserve twice as much as women, leaves women without full entitlement. One legal scholar is challenging this longstanding edict, and with it the very authority of the venerated Islamic institution.

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‘At War With ISIS’ – Sunni Islam’s Spiritual Leader El-Tayeb Speaks Out

El-Tayeb earlier this year
El-Tayeb earlier this year Wikipedia

La Stampa takes on big questions in Muslim world with Sunni Islam’s highest authority, who was at a conference in Italy, his first trip to Europe since taking his post in Cairo.

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A New Secular Party Challenges State Islam In Egypt

Al-Azhar mosque and university
Al-Azhar mosque and university Jorge Lascar

Despite the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, religion still dominates the public sphere. Against the odds, the founders of a new party are fighting for the separation of mosque and state.

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