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Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 4, 2003
The author interviews three Muslim scholars to comment on whether removing the veil is considered apostasy, especially since Dr. Sabry Abdel Ra’ouf has issued a fatwa in which he condemns retired artists who wore the veil and then removed it as apostates.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 1, 2003
The article gives the text of the legal reasoning given by the North Cairo Primary Court in a case, examined in 1997, concerning a book by Dr. Sayyed Al-Qimni, titled “The Lord of the Age and other Studies.” The Islamic Research Institute banned the book but the court allowed it.
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 13, 2005
Grand Imam of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, said if a woman wore the niqāb to cover her face with the aim of committing a murder or intimidating the innocent civilians, God would double her punishment because in this case she is like a hypocrite that pretends piety while concealing...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 7, 2005
Even the poliomyelitis serum was not safe from those blizzards of blind fatwas, which this time did not come from the Gulf countries or fanatics at home, but rather from Muslim leaders in some African countries, who decreed this vaccine as harām [religiously impermissible] on the pretext that “it...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 9, 2005
Cassette tapes urging jihād, bloodshed and relentlessness have been flooding the Egyptian market lately. They are produced in Saudi Arabia and exported to us via Egyptians coming home from hajj or cumra [lesser pilgrimage].
The objective pursued by these tapes was to give the impression that “we...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2003
Father Christiaan van Nispen supported the foundation of the RNSAW/AWR from the very first moment and provided strong intellectual input. Not many people are as well acquainted with Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt as Father van Nispen who has been in Egypt since 1962, studied Arabic and Islam...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2003
Prof. Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi joined the board of advisors of the RNSAW/AWR from the first day it started in 1997. He has been extremely helpful in explaining Islamic subjects and making it possible to meet with the Sheikh al-Azhar, the Minister of Awqaf and numerous Muslim scholars. He is both a...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 3, 2005
The ghost of terrorism is hunting us again near the Azhar and in Taba. What would push youth to commit such dreadful crimes? It is the sayings of Muslim Brother philosopher Sayyid Qutb who wrote, "the pagan societies include those who claim to be Muslim societies." He also said, "believers should...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 29, 2003
Comment on demonstrations in Egypt and reports in Egyptian press about the war in Iraq.
Reporting about the war in Iraq.
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 8, 2004
The Azhar issued a fatwa via the Islamic Research Institute rendering haram touching the sanctity of prophets on the TV screen or cinema or even in caricature drawings. Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin, a Muslim scholar, said that the part of “The Passion of the Christ,” where the Jews tried kill Christ is...
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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.