The Salafi Dawah has said it cannot urge the people to vote for the new constitution if it does not reflect the nation's identity and make clear references to Sharia. The group said in an official ...

As the countdown for the legislative poll begins, uncertainty looms over the chances of the nascent Salafi alliance, consisting of an offshoot from the nation’s largest ultra-orthodox party and the ...

In the last four years, a pressing question has loomed over the Alexandria-based Salafi Dawah group, one of the Islamist movements which has remained publicly active in Egypt and politically engaged ...

Egypt’s Al Nour (“The Light”) party, the second-biggest in the country, named a new leader, Younis Makhioun, last week. The previous leader of this hardline Salafi party, Emad Abdel Ghafour, resigned ...

Two and half years ago, when Egyptians revolted against the regime of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, Salafis hardly had any political voice. In fact, they refrained from political participation ...

An Egyptian scholar has issued a fatwa against the 2014 Fifa World Cup as it could distract Muslims from praying during Ramadan. Yasser Borhami, preacher and vice-president of the Salafi Dawah ...