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Date of source: Monday, December 27, 2010
Ahmad Rif‘at condemns the fatwá encouraging the murder of Shaykh Yūsuf ‘Abd Allāh al-Qaradāwī, calling the shaykh who issued it "retarded and Salafī."
Rif‘at discusses the roots of this tragedy, saying the Prophet Muhammad predicted that in the end times ridiculous and despicable people (al-...
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2000
International
and local media have pursued the spiritual phenomena of the apparition of the Madonna in
Assiut, where more than 10,000
Muslims and Christians have gathered to witness the miracle, which started
on August 17th.
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
The head of St. Mark’s Cathedral Committee for
National Participation said that he was against terrorism, which was imported to the Arab countries by America in
the first place. Journalist Kamal Zakher believed that the real danger was in having a religious interpretation of
what was going on....
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2001
A look at history will show that Arab
Christians have always been on the side of their fellow Arab Muslims. Mohammed Auda stressed that Arab Christians
were Arabs in the full sense of the word. Fahmi Howeidi pointed out that Huntington, in his theory about the clash
between civilizations, put...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2002
Some people believe that one of three things may be the reason behind the imprisoned leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya writing their recent four books: they might have been pressured by the security bodies or that they fear the consequences of the September 11 attacks or that they want to...
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 2004
In an interview with Al-Musawwar
magazine, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Muhammad Mahdi Akef presented a contract between the
Brotherhood and the Journalists’ Syndicate in which it was written that the Brotherhood would
rent the hall for a couple of hours to present its statement concerning...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 2004
Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, formerly Egyptian Mufti , compared the US invasion of Iraq to the liberation of Mecca in an interview with the Al-Hurra channel last week. He explained that US forces came to aid the people of Iraq and rescue them from the tyranny,...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Al-Gezira channel interviewed the Editor-in-chief of Al-Nabaa, who did not admit to making a mistake by publishing the story of the expelled monk. For him, everything was according to the law and the traditions of the society and the whole matter was nothing but a conspiracy against his paper.
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2001
Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi, the Dean of the Faculty of Usul Al-Din [fundamentals of religion] in the Azhar University, was harshly attacked because of his fatwa [religious decree given by a Muslim scholar or Mufti] allowing leasing of wombs. The attack leveled against him reached the extent of...
Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2000
The author believes the Sheikh of the Azhar’s opinion about the Al-Aqsa mosque went on the expense of his credibility. He believes that the Sheikh missed an important historical chance to reconstruct the Fiqh because of his political positions which overshadowed his Fiqh positions.
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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.