Displaying 11 - 20 of 23.
Date of source: Saturday, November 15, 2008 to Friday, November 21, 2008
This article deals with the delay in face-veiled women’s marriage which make some of them resort to offices that help them find a suitor. The article also sheds light on a study carried out by ‘Ayn Shams University about the spread of hijāb and niqāb.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
The Head of the Department of Transport and Bridges Equipment in Cairo was arrested together with his wife for forming a group promoting ideas against Islam. He issued a fatwa to his followers that they were not obliged to pray in the direction of the Kiblah while performing prayers. He also denied...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Has piety become a means of profit-making? Or have some of us contracted psycho-social diseases that render our manners ostentatious and showy? In some five-star hotels now there are so-called Islamic wedding parties, the cost of which for 100 invited persons in all cases exceeds LE 100,000. The...
Date of source: Saturday, July 24, 2004
A fatwa by Sheikh Muhammad Abdel Maqsoud revealed how shallow, extreme words can be terribly influential on naive minds if the opinions of other religious scholars are absent. Sheikh Abdel Maqsoud banned photographs and cinema, while permitting watching videotapes, arguing that videotapes consist...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 2004
A husband whose wife gets divorce based on the personal status code for Orthodox Copts, regulating the affairs of marriage and divorce and other related matters, filed a lawsuit in which he challenged the code unconstitutional. The complainant argues the Holy Bible, which is the first source of...
Date of source: Monday, January 12, 2004
The Administrative Court overturned a complaint filed by two Orthodox Copts against Pope Shenouda in which they demanded the suspension of the presidential decree that formed the temporary Maglis al-Milli al-Amm [General Community Council] of Orthodox Copts.
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001 to Friday, April 20, 2001
[Al-Khola’: wife’s request for divorce in return of renouncing all her rights in the marriage]
A lawyer started a lawsuit to make Al-Khola’ law ineffective as he argues it is unconstitutional. The client of that lawyer is Coptic a lady who changed her religion to have the right to Al-Khola’ but the...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
This woman opened the door in the passageway of the courts of personal status, for tortured Christian women to get a divorce. F.F., a Coptic businesswoman, took a short cut to divorce by asking for the [Islamic] Khula’ law to be applied to her according to the new personal status law, after...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
A man wrote a letter to the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, claiming that he is the Mahdi who, in Islam, comes at the end of times. The article further explains the concept of this self-acclaimed Mahdi on the end of times and the response of well-known Muslim scholars.
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
Dr. Abd Al-Rahim Shehata, Governor of Cairo, and his deputy explain why he dissolved the Society of Al-Azhar Scholars’ Front. Meanwhile Dr. Yehia Isma’il, President of the Society of Al-Azhar Scholars’ Front insists that they are the first to defend the Al-Azhar, and that there are no differences...
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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.