71.   On Tuesday, Islamic scholars kept up their criticism.

72.   On Friday night, Anwar visited well-known Islamic scholar Harun Din, banned from weekly televised religious shows as his views were seen by the government as too extreme.

73.   Promising to be an issue again is female circumcision, which some Islamic scholars have condoned even though it is illegal.

74.   Sheik Abdul-Aziz bin Baz issued his ruling at a meeting of senior Saudi Islamic scholars last month in the western city of Taif.

75.   Somalia, which is predominantly Muslim, has longstanding ties with Egypt, and most of its leading Islamic scholars studied in Cairo.

76.   Some Islamic scholars see no contradiction in the imposition of the veil and the extension of electoral rights.

77.   The arrest of al-Shouebi underlines the problems authorities face when cracking down on the ulema, or Islamic scholars.

78.   The chancellor of the new university is a former Afghan rebel leader and Islamic scholar, Sibghatullah Mojaddidi.

79.   The Croatian state-run HINA news agency quoted Dragicevic as saying the group included Islamic philosophy teachers, students and Islamic scholars.

80.   The Islamic law observed by the Taliban has been questioned by Islamic scholars, and other Muslim countries have criticized the order.