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Date of source: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the people are choosing their president with their own free will for the first time through fair electoral process.
“This is a historic day for Egypt and its people,” said Tayīb after casting his vote in the district of Heliopolis, urging voters to...
Date of source: Friday, April 6, 2012
Thousands of Copts held a funerary march April 4 at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in al-‘Abbāssīyah commemorating the death of the Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III.
While hanging a poster of Pope Shenouda by a number of youth in the Cathedral, a flock of doves flew which amazed the people who...
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: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Muftī of the Republic Shaykh 'Alī Jum'ah said Egypt is an Islamic nation that respects the rights of Copts as partners in the nation, noting the Iftā' House pursues a moderate approach. [Muhammad Hijāb, Khālid Ahmad al-Mat'anī and Sāmī al-Qamhāwī, al-Ahrām, Feb. 1, p. 3]
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb said that all documents, statements and decisions as well as meetings held at the Azhar headquarters throughout last year was not an attempt to get the top Sunni Muslim establishment to play a political role but rather out of keenness on the nation's...
Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2011
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Mutfi of Egypt Dr. 'Alī Jum'ah said Islam is an essential component of human civilization, and that all attempts to banish Islam from modern-day life will not succeed.
Jum'ah made the remarks during a meeting with Lord George Carey, a member of the House of Lords and former Archbishop of...
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2011
Muftī of the Republic Dr. 'Alī Jum'ah asserted that demolishing or bombing churches, killing whoever in it, or intimidating them are matters that run counter to the Islamic sharī'ah.
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.