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Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party refused the environmental affairs portfolio.Prime Minister Dr. Hishām Qandīl had phoned Khālid ‘Alam al-Dīn, a member of al-Nūr (Light) Party, to offer him the position of Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, but the Party refused and considered the offer as an...
13. The "Brotherhood" demands the intervention of Al-Azhar to interpret the "principles of sharī’ah"
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: The Maspero Youth Union staged protest outside the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-'Abbāssīyah to call on acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius and members of the Millī (Laymen) Council to withdraw the representatives of the church from the assembly. The Union...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, said it supports having both articles intact. The salafīs also refuse Article III because they want to change the phrase "sovereignty is by the people" to read "sovereigny is by Allah".
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, said it supports having both articles intact. The salafīs also refuse Article III because they want to change the phrase "sovereignty is by the people" to read "sovereigny is by Allah".
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution of 1971 reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists sought removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists seek removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the word ‘...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
The crisis over the drafting of Article II of the Constitution continued after representatives of the salafī camp insisted on the addition of the phrase “legislators shall enact laws based on the sources of the four Islamic madhāhib (doctrines)” as precondition for keeping the phrase “principles of...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
The crisis over the drafting of Article II of the Constitution continued after representatives of the salafī camp insisted on the addition of the phrase “legislators shall enact laws based on the sources of the four Islamic madhāhib (doctrines)” as precondition for keeping the phrase “principles of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 22, 2012
Al-Asālah demanded the writing of new articles in the constitution to establish a “higher sharī’ah court” to watch whether laws and resolutions are in line with the Islamic law.
Al-Nūr said it is considering this proposal while the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) rejected it. [...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Amidst tension overshadowing the political scene, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is meeting Tuesday (June 5) with parties represented in parliament as well as some independent lawmakers to discuss means to form a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution.
Members of the...
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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.