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Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Meanwhile, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb said the top Sunnī establishment is soon releasing a document indicating the rights of women as adopted by the Islamic sharī’ah (law), highlighting women’s interest in education.
“Islam has granted women rights that have not been included in...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Official Muslim organizations – the Azhar, the Academy of Islamic Research, the Iftā’ House and the Ministry of Awqāf (Endowments) – sent high-ranking delegations to offer condolences over the death of Pope Shenouda, mourning the Coptic religious leader as a “symbol of peace and amity that will be...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Official Muslim organizations – the Azhar, the Academy of Islamic Research, the Iftā’ House and the Ministry of Awqāf (Endowments) – sent high-ranking delegations to offer condolences over the death of Pope Shenouda, mourning the Coptic religious leader as a “symbol of peace and amity that will be...
Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2012
On the other hand, the Azhar organized a discussion about the importance of world peace and dialogue, stressing the importance of confronting human rights violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians.
The discussion was attended by a number of Azhar scholars, clerics...
Date of source: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Prince Charles of Wales invited Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb to visit Britain during the month of April to give a lecture at the University of Cambridge.
Al-Tayyīb received the invitation on March 28 from British ambassador to Cairo James Watt [Reviewer’s Note: the paper mistakenly...
Date of source: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Prince Charles of Wales invited Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb to visit Britain during the month of April to give a lecture at the University of Cambridge.
Al-Tayyīb received the invitation on March 28 from British ambassador to Cairo James Watt [Reviewer’s Note: the paper mistakenly...
Date of source: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Prince Charles of Wales invited Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb to visit Britain during the month of April to give a lecture at the University of Cambridge.
Al-Tayyīb received the invitation on March 28 from British ambassador to Cairo James Watt [Reviewer’s Note: the paper mistakenly...
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2013
Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab, Azhar’s Grand Shaykh’s advisor for dialogue, said that the Azhar is willing to resume dialogue with the Vatican especially after the resignation of the former Vatican Pope Benedict XVI and with the election of the new Vatican Pope Francis I (Marwah al-Bashīr, al-Ahrām, Jul. 6, p....
Date of source: Monday, March 25, 2013
Members of Senior Scholars and Islamic Research Academy denounced the attack on a Coptic Church in Benghazi, Libya, further humiliating the Church’s priest by shaving his beard and mustache as well as beating him and nine other people. Azhar scholars stressed that attacking a church, demolishing or...
Date of source: Thursday, January 10, 2013
After his meeting with the Azhar’s Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyīb, the Saudi preacher Shaykh Muhammad Bin ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-’Arifī during a press conference referred to Egypt’s historic, leading role in the Arab region and the world. He urged Egyptians to be patient and stressed the importance...
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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.