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Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2007 to Friday, March 23, 2007
Iqbāl al-Sibā‘ī reports about the different opinions of Islamic scholars.
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
Prominent Azhar scholars express their views about forcing young girls to wear the khimār.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with Bahā’ism in Egypt and the attempts by the followers of this faith to obtain official recognition, particularly in light of a recent court ruling holding that the Ministry of Interior ministry should grant them identity cards in which their religion is registered.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with the ideologies of a group of Muslims who call themselves "the Qur’ānites" who believe only in the Qur’ān and deny the sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] altogether.
Date of source: Friday, April 14, 2006
A few days ago, the director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, claimed that the Prophet Muhammad was given another name at birth by his mother, Āmina, and that this name will remain unknown to the world.
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2001 to Friday, November 2, 2001
A lawyer raised a case to prevent the film "To make God love you"
from being shown because the word "God" in the title was associated with a picture of a young man and two girls in
an improper position. He tried to obtain a fatwa to support his legal case, by sending a complaint with the case...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
The Minister of the Interior sent a letter to the Sheikh of the Azhar telling him about a challenging Internet site called the "Jihad of the Apostates" sending forth lies about the Qur’an and the Prophet. The minister asked the Sheikh of the Azhar to cooperate in correcting its deviant thoughts by...
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2006 to Friday, March 17, 2006
The author reviews the opinions of several intellectuals about the mysterious spread of niqāb-clad women in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2003 to Friday, September 26, 2003
Women are eager to work in the field of Da´wa [Islamic missionary activity] and study Islamic dogma to the degree that they have excelled men. People who are responsible for Da´wa say that this is due to the awareness of women of her role to correct some misunderstood conceptions. The cultural...
Date of source: Saturday, August 30, 2003 to Friday, September 5, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Amina Nuseir, former dean of the Islamic Studies School. She comments on how Islam in Egypt and the Islamic conquest of Egypt are different. This is due to the impact of Egyptian culture and nature on it.
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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.