Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 18, 2007
Thanā’ al-Karrās discusses the issue of the importance of meetings, conferences, and activities of inter-religious dialogue and whether or not they are worth the efforts and money spent on them.
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 14, 2007
This article deals with some points discussed by the Anglican al-Azhar Dialogue Committee in London with focus on Shaykh Umar al-Dīb’s paper on Muslim minorities in the West.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 16, 2007
Robeir al-Faris discusses the decision announced by Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī regarding permitting Copts to study at the Azhar. He further mentions the recent furor caused by a documentary that depicts Christ from a Muslim perspective.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 15, 2007 to الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 21, 2007
A children’s encyclopedia that interprets the Qur’ān attacks Christians and Jews, charges them with kufr [apostasy] and calls on Muslims to fight against them.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 9, 2007
The article discusses the alleged disappearance of Coptic girls, criticizing the difficulties that parents face in being able to file a legal document to report their daughter’s disappearance.
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 6, 2007
al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ proposed a debate on how some Muslim scholars consider inter-religious dialogue. While many approve of it as being a positive means of creating peace and ending conflicts, others reject it in under the present conditions of attacks on Islam.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 8, 2007
Shaykh Jamāl Quṭb calls for equality between the Azhar and the church and for the Shaykh of the Azhar to be elected in the same fashion that the Vatican cardinals do with the Vatican pope.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 2, 2007
The Korean hostages in Afghanistan violated their government’s recommendations not to go to Afghanistan and exploited the misery of poor people to convince them to change their religion and convert to Christianity. The author also blames the Azhar for its support of the group of missionaries.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2007
The under-secretary of the Azhar Shaykh ‘Umar al-Dīn has headed for London to attend the annual meeting for the inter-faith dialogue between the Azhar and the Anglican Church in the U.K.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2007
Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá discusses a suggestion from thinker Samīr Marqus who has asked for a committee to examine the inclinations of individuals who intend to convert from one religion to another. Mūsá, however, refers to the absence of concepts of citizenship and civil state as the main roots of the...