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Date of source: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
A newspaper publishes false news about the Grand Imām’s alleged intervention to bring back a young man who has proclaimed Islam. The newspaper further refused to publish a retraction or the Grand Imām’s denial of the previously published news.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
This article summarizes the acts of Sheikh Tayyib and Bishop Istephanos concerning the issue of a young Christian man’s conversion to Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The article reports that the Church’s legal advisor Najīb Jibrā’īl submitted his proposed new draft law for adoption to the Islamic Research Academy to give its opinion on it and that Nabīl Lūqā Bībāwī made a request to the Azhar Grand Shaykh to nominate him for the State Appreciation Award.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
For the second time, Dr. Nabīl Lūqā Bibāwī suggested his proposed law for non Muslims’ personal status affairs be discussed at the Azhar. However, the Azhar refused to discuss the law, which it considered a private concern for non-Muslims.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The grand Imām of the Azhar, Dr. Muḥammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī calls for dialogue in discussing and criticizing Fatwás, rejecting the insult and attack method used by some Shaykhs to respond to the controversial Fatwás that they do not like.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
The Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy holds
an extra-ordinary
meeting to decide on the issue of recognizing the Bahā’ī faith.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 22, 2003
The Islamic Research Institute began following up Internet sites that attack Islam in order to respond to misinformation being published about Islam. The General Secretary of the Institute asked Muslims who use the Internet to inform the institute if they come across any site of that kind.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
The Azhar is imposing bans on books in Arabic and in English claiming that they contradict Islamic principles.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Calls for the Azhar to respond to the provocative caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that were published in the Danish press and which enraged Islamic communities.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Report of the Azhar’s response to an attack on the Prophet in the Danish media.
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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.