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Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 24, 2011
The Family House initiative founded by the Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb is facing a lot of criticism from some of the Azhar scholars and Neo-scholars coalition. They have requested that this initiative be cancelled because all its members are remnants of the former regime. Has this ...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 24, 2011
One of the obvious phenomena after the revolution was a rebellion against the church and the Azhar. One aspect of this rebellion was manifested in refusing to end the protest by the Maspero area, regardless of instructions issued by Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III.
The rebellion against the...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 23, 2011
This is the first time the Azhar Grand Shaykh has summoned a group of intellectuals from the civil society, represented in many Coptic intellectuals, but not because they are Copts but because they are Egyptians.
At the beginning of the meeting all the attendants agreed on a civil state, threatened...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 19, 2011
The Middle East Media Research Institute recently highlighted a YouTube video issued by the former Muftī of Egypt, Nasr Farīd Wāsil, on May 7, 2011. In his presentation, MEMRI quotes him as saying:
The martyr Bin Lādin, Allah's mercy upon him, waged Jihad for the sake of Allah against the Soviets...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 11, 2011
Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb welcomed cooperation with the salafī and all Islamist movements in order to reach a unified Muslim discourse under the aegis of the Azhar.
This came during the meeting between Tayīb and salafī leader Shaykh Muhammad Hasān, the first of its kind between the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 11, 2011
Hundreds of Copts yesterday continued their strike outside the official TV building for the third day on Cairo Nile Corniche over recent sectarian violence, as revolutionaries are planning a march in support of national unity on Friday. The message of the march will be that Muslims and Christians...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 6, 2011
On Wednesday, May 4, 2011, the Azhar and Sūfī leaders accused salafists of tarnishing Islam.
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Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
The Salafī demonstration and subsequent attacks on Coptic Orthodox churches in the poor Cairo suburb of Imbābah on Saturday reportedly began after claims that a Christian woman, 'Abīr, had converted to Islam for marital reasons and later ran 'Awwāy. Whatever the truth of these claims, the fact...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 6, 2011
Hundreds of salafists, including dozens of fully-veiled women, protested outside the Azhar offices in northern Cairo, urging the Muftī, a senior Muslim cleric in Egypt who issues religious edicts, to backtrack on his view on the head-to-toe veil.
The protesters raised banners that went further...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 5, 2011
During the Family House Initiative meeting in the Azhar, solutions of cooling down the fitnah was discussed.
The meeting also tackled ways to prevent foreign interference in Muslim-Christian relations.
A second meeting was held to consider means to achieve independence of the Azhar.
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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.