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Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments], stressed that his ministry did not breach the rules of Shari’a or infringe on fundamental aspects of Islamic religion when it adopted a project aiming at unifying the azan of Greater Cairo’s mosques. In a press conference, the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq was able to embarrass his opponents when he presented the statement issued by the Egyptian Grand Mufti, Dr. Ali Goma’a, in which he emphasized that unifying the Azan is lawful according to Shari’a and that the great four Muslim imams permitted performing a singe Azan for a...
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2004
In his attempt to restore the spiritual side of the azan, Minister of Endowments Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq has begun a project intended to unify the voices and times of the azan. This step came after a noticeable increase in the number of mosques which has opened the door to many muezzins [the person...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
The decision taken by Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister of Awqaf [Religious endowment], to unify the call to prayer in state mosques by way of a radio broadcast, has caused much debate. Al-Midan put the question to various specialists.
Date of source: Sunday, May 12, 2002
Changing the way prayers are called for is part of reforming the religious discourse. In the past prayers were called for by gentle voices and without loudspeakers. Now, they are called for by harsh voices and through loud speakers. People asked whether they could listen to prayer calls through a...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
In a cultural symposium attended by Ahmad Abdel Mo’ti Hegazy in the Kuwaiti Cultural Center, participants discussed the modernizing of the religious discourse. Many controversial issues related to the main subject triggered dialogue and heated answers.
Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
With regard to the Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between the Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf and its Saudi counterpart: Fighting fundamentalism and
terrorism is indirectly achieved by showing the moderate core of the religion. Cooperation with the Saudis can be based on
the common denominators...
Date of source: Friday, January 9, 2004
Many narratives from the history of Prophet Muhammad document how he used to teach early Muslims the protocols of calling to prayer[azan]. He forbade them to raise their voice whether they were in the city or outside. The main purpose of the azan is announcing that prayer time has come. But the...
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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.