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Date of source: Friday, March 14, 2014
Al- Shārqah (Sharjah) city in the UAE was chosen by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) as the Capital of Islamic Culture for the year
Date of source: Monday, May 22, 2017
The American Islamic Summit, hosted in the Saudi Arabian capital, coincided with the final football match in the Islamic Solidarity Games hosted by Azerbaijan.
Date of source: Friday, January 3, 2014
Seeking to prevent further manipulation of mosques by the Muslim brotherhood, the Ministry of Endowments activated the decision that all the mosques should stay under its supervision.
Date of source: Sunday, December 13, 2015
The sermon delivered by Shaikh `Abd al-Hakam Salāma of Cairo's Al-Hussain mosque last Friday has caused outrage among Islam scholars and imams. In his attempt to ban calls for demonstrations that jeopardize the state's stability, the imam of the mosque cited verses of the Qur'ān and the Hadīth that...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
Editor: AWR received this text before President Mubarak announced he would step down. Nothing in the media indicated that this could happen tonight, yet it did.
Ever since the demonstrations began on January 25, men of religion have been stressing the importance of them not being transformed from...
Date of source: Sunday, July 12, 2009
Egypt resorts to religion in order to confront sexual harassment.
Date of source: Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Administrative Court approved the Azhar decision not to enroll Christian students at the Azhar University.
Date of source: Thursday, July 21, 2005
The religious establishment in Egypt is composed of four main branches: the Azhar, the Azhar University, the Ministry of Endowments, and the Dar al-Iftā’. They are independent institutions that are loyal to the state.
Date of source: Monday, December 25, 2006
The monopolized religious authority is an echo of the political monopolized authority and the
result of hard financial conditions and regressing social and educational values.
Date of source: Monday, December 18, 2006
Many of the
issues considered
as belonging to the proven and known in Islām can change according to time and circumstances.
What some
think as protection from foreign danger is really a restriction of development that gives one group of
clergymen the authority to control the beliefs and...
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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.