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Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 25, 2008
The Azhar is experiencing a controversy between scholars who call for the purification of fiqh heritage and those who believe fiqh already contains rules of extended applications and that no scholar now is able to understand such rules.
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 18, 2008
A Muslim scholar accuses the U.S. of penetrating civil society in Egypt.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 25, 2007
Sunhī Mujāhid reviews a statement released by the currently-banned Azhar Scholars Front, in which the front asked the grand imām of the Azhar to put an end to the prolonged period of alienation between the Azhar and the front.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2007
The Azhar University Chancellor denies news published in al-Miṣrī al-Yawm and threatens to sue the newspaper if a retraction is not published.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 3, 2007
Subḥī Mujāhid reports on the Fatwá Committee at the Azhar’s refusal to recognize Coptic lawyer and human rights activist Counselor Najīb Jibrā’īl’s demand to not allow Coptic minors under the age of 21 to change their religion.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 9, 2007
Deputy of the Azhar Shaykh ‘Umar al-Dīb announced the inauguration of the first Azhar institute in Britain.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 3, 2007
An interview with the Muftī of Egypt, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah. The Muftī discusses current issues about Fatwás and the functioning of Dār al-Iftā’. He further comments on hot current Islamic issues.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 26, 2007
The Azhar asserted that dialogue with British institutions, bodies and the Anglican Church is continuing regardless of the British government’s decision to award Salman Rushdie with a knighthood.
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 6, 2007 to الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 12, 2007
The article is based on a listing of articles that talk about the Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah and his Fatwá which believes that drinking from Prophet Muhammad’s urine bestowed blessings. Despite the fact that the Islamic Research Academy has asked the Muftī to withdraw this claim, he...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2007
Subḥī Mijāhid reports on the recent Fatwá of the Azhar which prohibited ten different forms of marriages.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.