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Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
Civil movements rejected a proposal by ‘Ādil ‘Afīfī, leader of the salafī al-Asālah (Authenticity) Party, to form a commission of top scholars comprising salafī preachers and Azhar officials to be in charge of interpreting the principles of the sharī’ah stated in the Egyptian Constitution,...
16. Article "criminalizing any insults to God" erupts new differences between Al-Azhar and the Copts
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
A new proposed article by the Azhar criminalizing any insults to God, the prophets, Orthodox Caliphs or the Prophet Muhammad’s wives stirred differences and arguments between the top Sunni institution and Copts. [Rajab al-Murshidī and Salāh al-Dīn Hassan, al-Watan, July 24, p. 5] Read text in...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 15, 2012
On the other hand, statements by lawyer Joseph Malāk, an Alexandrian Coptic activist, stirred arguments in Coptic and church circles after he announced that he had addressed the U.S. administration in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Cairo to ask for mediation with President Muhammad Mursī on the...
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 14, 2012
Meanwhile, intellectuals and Azhar scholars criticized salafī representatives in the constituent assembly drafting a new Egyptian constitution for trying to force unusual terms and phrases on the new constitution, like “shūrá (consultative) state” and “sovereignty is for God”.
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Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 9, 2012
On the other hand, Chairman of the Teachers’ Syndicate Ahmad al-Halawānī, who is also a member of the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt, said that there will be no change to Article 19 of the 1971 Constitution that read “religious education syllabus is a basic subject”. [...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 4, 2012
The party told some leading members in the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) that they will not cede their wish to implement the Islamic sharī’ah.
The Salafī Da’wah (Call) appealed to its deputy leader Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, a member of the constituent assembly...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 3, 2012
Ghālib said that the churches rely on the Azhar document, which is one of the important references for the writing of an Egyptian constitution.
Head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, said the constituent assembly will write a draft constitution to offer to the Egyptian people...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 3, 2012
Ghālib said that the churches rely on the Azhar document, which is one of the important references for the writing of an Egyptian constitution.
Head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, said the constituent assembly will write a draft constitution to offer to the Egyptian people...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 2012
"The Muslim Brotherhood obtained 20 seats – either lawmakers belonging to the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Irshād (Guidance) Office members or public figures affiliated to the group like Islamic thinker Dr. Muhammad 'Umārah," said Katātnī.
The Supreme Constitutional Court withdrew from the...
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 10, 2012
The ministry of justice rejected a draft law criminalizing hatemongering on the basis of religion, sex, language, culture or ethnicity on the grounds that the proposed draft is already covered in the penal code articles 160, 161, 161-bis, 171 and 176 and consequently there is no need for an...
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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.