Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 30, 2007
Dr. Isaac Fānūs freely spoke his mind about the issues he found important. Dr. Fānūs was critical about ecclesiastical institutions and leadership, including those in his own Coptic Orthodox Church. In this interview religions are described as societal entities that humans have created and...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 6, 2007
Imīl Amīn interviews Michael Louis Fitzgerald, the ambassador of the Vatican in Egypt.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 3, 2007 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 9, 2007
‘Abduh Mubāshir warns about the policy of Takfīr followed by professors of the Azhar University.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 23, 2007
Labīb blames Dr. Aḥmad Kamāl Abū al-Majd for his strategy of keeping the council’s reports and correspondences confidential. He highlights Abū al-Majd’s rejection of the council’s Cultural Committee because it criticized the Azhar.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2007
The Shaykh of the Azhar Muhammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī referred to the possibility of resuming the Azhar-Vatican dialogue that stopped after the Roman Catholic pope’s highly-publicized and controversial lecture on Islām.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2007
Muslim thinker Dr. Muḥammad ‘Imārah has come under fire for his book, ’Fitnat al-Takfīr Bayna al- Shī‘ah wa-al-Wahābīyah wa-al-Sūfīyah’ [Reviewer: The Sedition of Takfīr between Shī‘ah, Wahhābism and Ṣūfism], in which he quoted texts that allegedly incite the killing of non-Muslims. Disregarding Dr...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2007
The article is about a book by Maḥmūd ‘Awaḍ that shows how peaceful and tolerant minister al-Bāqūrī was.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 1, 2007
A document is issued by the bishop of Naj‘ Ḥammadī following the conversion of two Coptic men to Islām. The bishop accuses fundamentalist Islamic groups of exploiting the poor financial circumstances of some Christian young men to oblige them to convert.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 6, 2007
The article is about the crisis that the Muslim Brotherhood group faces as some of its affiliated students present a military arts show in the campus of the Azhar University.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 1, 2007
The Ḥijāb is not an obligation in Islām, and it is dangerous to easily classify certain concepts under the known and proven. Islām needs innovating scholars who are able to bring it up to date while maintaining the sense of Sharī‘ah, depending on the reasonable interpretation of the Qur’ān and the...