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Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 1, 2006
Following the mixed public reaction to the recent statements made by the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārūq Husnī, on the Ḥijāb, the People’s Assembly’s committees for Religious Affairs and Culture and Media held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue. In an attempt to...
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 18, 2006
Two weeks ago, al-Fajr published a letter sent in by a Bahā’ī reader, who discussed in detail the principles of the Bahā’ī faith. In its issue of June 19, 2006, al-Fajr publishes two more letters sent in by Muslim readers responding to what they described as falsehoods contained in the...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2006
Correcting the image of Islam in the West can be achieved
when Muslims
first admit that they actually failed in transmitting the right concept of Islam and then map
out a plan for this
goal.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 26, 2001
The author believes that Muslim scholars, when commenting on the attacks in America and Islam’s relationship to it, talk about politics instead of talking about religion. Everything politicians wanted was said by religious scholars. In the end, religion will be troubled by the description that it...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 22, 2002
The deputy of the Ministry of Waqfs said that the number of Americans and Europeans living in Egypt who have converted to Islam has increased after September 11. An American convert said that if America is acquainted with Islam, all Americans would become Muslims.
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 30, 2002 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2002
The Egyptian TV shows religious programs giving fatwas live on air. This leads to confusion among people as fatwas are given without due reflection. The head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee said that not every question could be answered directly. An Azhar scholar said that those who give fatwas...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 2, 2005
A discussion of the different place clergy and Islamic shaykhs obtain their garments.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 19, 1999
Interview with Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Sheikh of the Azhar, about a range of actual subjects in Egypt, including regulating pilgrimage, his opposition to the embargo of Iraq, religious censorship, the new magazine of the Azhar, a fatwa on taking loans, presenting religious personalities...
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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.