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Date of source: Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Salafīst students at the Azhar University sent warning letters to their professors and deans of different faculties to announce their repentance of their old thoughts and of becoming "real" Muslims by adopting the Salafī school of Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) with its specific old and contemporary...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb is holding a press conference on Tuesday morning to offer the outcome of meetings of senior intellectuals and Azhar scholars throughout three sessions to adopt the Four Public Freedoms document.
An Azhar source told al-Dustūr newspaper that the paper...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Dr. ‘Abbās Shūmān, Undersecretary of Al-Azhar, gave a lecture at the Police Hospital in ʿAjūzah. In his lecture, Dr. ‘Abbās Shūmān calls on the audience of police officers and civilians to uphold human and moral values, which contribute to the prevalence of safety, security and tranquility among...
Date of source: Saturday, September 7, 2013
A summarization and translation of the interview with Al-Watan Interview with Minister of Endowments, Mohammed Mokhtar Goma’a [Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah], with was published in al-Watan on September 7, 2014. The interview contains his opinions in addition to government policies on the secularization...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
AWR: On June 29, our friend Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab (Mahmoud Azzab) suddenly passed away. He meant a lot to Arab-West Report. Intern Alastair White translated this article about him.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
A source close to the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, told al-Watan that, the latter had decided to prolong his holidays in his hometown in the Luxor Province in Upper Egypt, concerned on the attempts to what they called the “Brotherhoodization” of the Ministry of Awkaf or Awqāf (...
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2011
Hudá al-Kāshif, a female Muslim preacher, called in a study for activating the Azhar's role to strengthen citizenship and confront sectarian troubles that "only aim to devastate the nation and sow division among the people."
Kāshif, who is also a member of the Scientific Academy for Qur'ān and...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Azhar received a phone call from the Saudi Arabia-based family of Usāmah Bin Lādin, expressing thanks for the Azhar's position against the burial of al-Qā'idah leader's body.
U.S. forces had killed Bin Lādin in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan and threw his body into the sea, which Muslims...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Dr. Sālim 'Abd al-Jalīl, Deputy Minister of Awqaf [Endowments] for da'wah affairs, criticized salafists attempt to take over the Ministry's pulpits, represented in mosques affiliated to the ministry, adding that it would defame Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Azhar Scholars Front demanded the resignation of Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, Deputy Prime Minister, for speaking sacrilegiously about God.
Al-Jamāl had said on a TV program that if God came on earth and entered the referendum he [God] will get 70 percent, and he [God] has to thank God for that.
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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.