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Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 26, 2006
The decision of the muftī of the republic, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a to allow the controversial Wahabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad, by Natana J. De Long-Bas into Egypt has provoked dispute among members of the Islamic Research Academy, who had previously announced their disapproval of the...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 26, 2006
Sayyid writes on the statements of participants in a meeting organized by Goethe Institute, the German cultural center in Cairo, who underlined the need to enhance values of tolerance as a basis for an understanding and peaceful coexistence that rests on mutual respect and justice.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 26, 2006
He supports the freedom of religion as an assertion to Allāh’s instructions: a man needs not register his conviction, adding that this principle represented the spirit of Islam.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 31, 2006
Half a century after it was banned, Najīb Mahfouz’s controversial novel, Awlād Hāritnā, is returning to the Egyptian market, this time with an introduction by Islamic thinker Ahmad Kamāl Abu al-Majd at the request of Mahfouz himself.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 28, 2006
Awlād Hāritnā, the controversial novel by Najīb Mahfouz caused controversy both when it was published and again in 1988 when the Swedish Nobel academy announced that Mahfouz had won its prize for literature and praised his novel as "spiritual”.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 26, 2006
Khālid Bura‘ī presents a list of banned books in Egypt.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 23, 2006
Reviewer: ‘Amr al-Misrī
One person has been killed and around 17 injured in Muslim-Christian clashes in the village of al-‘Udaysāt, Luxor, after Muslims allegedly attacked a church, which had been built without a license. A local priest accused the security forces of being slow to intervene.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2006
The author of the article cites a few examples of the fatwas that have resulted in controversy amongst Muslims.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2006
The Danish premier denounced any expression of opinion that is meant to distort the image of any group based on their religious or ethnic affiliations, adding these acts have no place in a society that is built on respect for the individual. He described cartoons published by newspapers in Denmark...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 17, 2006
A copy of the Group for Democratic Development and Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies’ report on the Alexandria sectarian riots in October 2005.
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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.