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Date of source: Monday, April 21, 2014
Unlike the previous year, Salafī preachers this year have been silent on the religious permissibility of congratulating Copts.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
There are a number of religious scholars and preachers who were once representative of the beauty of Islam, and now have lost most of their popularity and legitimacy with their involvement in politics. Politics either has gotten the best of them, or burned them completely from the public sphere
Date of source: Monday, January 27, 2014 to Thursday, November 20, 2014
Sources within the Nūr party revealed that the party and the Salafī Call group are making preparations to support the nomination of General Abd al- Fattāh al- Sīsī for the presidency by transforming their campaign of “Yes for the Constitution” to The Campaign for Supporting al- Sīsī’s Nomination...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
On Tuesday, February 5, President Muhammad Mursī met Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The President remained for several hours at the private lounge at Cairo Airport to discuss presidential matters with President Mursī. Amid tight security measures, the President...
Date of source: Friday, January 4, 2013
In a statement on the “Sawt Al-Salaf” or the “Voice of Salaf” video footage, Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī issued a religious edict (fatwá) saying that ”Muslims who oppose the Sharī’ah-based Constitution are hypocrites, even if they fast and pray according to Islamic rules and consider themselves Muslims”.
Date of source: Friday, January 4, 2013
The year 2012 witnessed a number of fatwás released by the Salafī preacher, ‘Abd al-Mun’im al-Shahāt. Insisting on the authenticity of his fatwá, he claims that according to Islamic Sunnah, the birth date of Jesus Christ is not in winter season, thus, harshly attacking Muslims who extend their...
Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2008
The author blames Muslim clerics who appear on satellite channels for their hard and sad faces. He calls them "Shaykhs of misery."
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2007
The author believes that the Muftī of state, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, has been leading a surge of renewal of the Islamic religious discourse on the basis of contemporary intellectual and jurisprudential needs, unlike other Islamic clerics who show more concern with trivial issues rather than the bigger...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Some preachers came out of the blue and gave themselves
the right and authority to
passjudgment against well-known Muslim scholars solely because of the
fact that theydisagreed with
their opinions. The writer condemned these preachers, and their
demands to shed Muslim blood over a disagreement...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
‘Imād Tahah discusses research schools in research that tackles Arab and Muslim issues.
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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.