““Al-Sharaawi's fatwa that ‘humans do not own their bodies’ – and hence his prohibition of organ-transplant operations – was a key factor behind the Egyptian parliament's repeated blocking of legislation on the issue. His influence extended even to Egyptian cinema; he was one of the architects of the ‘religious wave’ among actresses in the 1990s who chose to shun the art, dropping out of the film business and ‘reverting to God’ as born-again Muslims.””
