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Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article deals with an incident in which a woman wearing a niqāb smashed a number of great works by a fine sculptor after a recent fatwa from the muftī saying that statues are not acceptable from a Muslim point of view.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article deals in a nutshell with the history of the Egyptian School of Arts and the successful experiment that astonished foreign experts who were the early directors of this old institution.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article explores the opinions of graduates from the College of Fine Arts, who later became prominent figures in Egypt, on the ordeal the faculty is going through and the growing number of people believing that art is harām.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article focuses on the resignation offered by a professor in the fine arts college over a mounting ultra-religious trend that believes that art is harām [unacceptable from a Muslim point of view].
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
The government has supplied 4000
recievers to the
mosques of Greater Cairo as part of a plan to unify the call to prayer, but some suspect a US plan
to unify
the Friday sermons and eventually cancel the dawn prayer.
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2006
Muslim scholars unanimously
agree that attacking the houses of worship of non-Muslims is harām
[religiously impermissible].
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2006
In an interview, the
general director of the Religious Guidance
Department at the Ministry of Awqāf [Endowments], Dr.
Sālim ‘Abd al-Jalīl
argues that freedom of religion is guaranteed in Islam, since God
says: “There is no compulsion in religion. The
right direction is henceforth distinct...
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
The Egyptian
Ministry of
Awqāf [endowments] has recently endorsed a proposal to unify the call to prayer that is
broadcast
from thousands of different loudspeakers in the country’s capital.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Mr. Muhammad al-Dirīnī has said in an interview that he intends to
establish a Shi’ite political party and a university in Egypt to propagate Shi’ism.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Hasan al-
Turābī’s liberal stand on women’s rights
has angered many Muslim scholars around the world. His
recent controversial fatwas, permitting
marriage between Muslim women and kitābīs
[Reviewer: People of the book: Christians and Jews]
and allowing women to lead men in communal prayers,...
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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.