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Date of source: Wednesday, June 20, 2001
The Higher Council or Culture published a translated book titled "Women and sexism in Islam," by Laila Ahmed. Sheikh Abdel-Azim Al-Matani wants the book banned along with another book about the early years in the life of Mohammed. Farouq Hosni, Minister of Culture, defended publication of these...
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2001
The Islamic Research Institute banned a collection of books containing ideas harmful to heavenly religions. Among these books was one titled "Say Baba and miracles of heavenly love." The author Dr. Abdel-Fattah Mohsin Badawi tells the story of Say Baba, an Indian Muslim Sufi. The author does not...
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2001
The production company claims the film is approved by the Azhar. The paper interviewed scriptwriters, directors, actors, and cartoonists on whether it was allowable to talk about Mohammed through a cartoon and whether the American production team were the most knowledgeable to produce such a film....
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
The author is of the opinion that some scientific facts could be diminished by popular ideas disguised by religion one time, and ethics or politics at other times. The ex-President of Cairo University and ex-Minister of Health, testified before the Islamic Research Institute that it was very...
Date of source: Friday, May 18, 2001
The author wrote an article in which he blamed the Sheikh of the Azhar and complained about his reaction to those opposing him. A comment on his article was said to be written by the General Secretary of Islamic Research Institute. What amazes the author is that when he blamed the Sheikh of the...
Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2001
The conference of "The Right of Expression" witnessed great controversies among intellectuals and men of law concerning the ideas Salah Eissa, the Editor-in-chief of Al-Qahira Magazine, introduced. He introduced ideas pertaining to religious and national constant principles and some other opinions...
Date of source: Monday, April 30, 2001
Islamist MPs ask for reforming some articles in the Emergency Law, with the aim of making the punishment those who defame religions and holy books receive more severe. They introduced an information request to the Prime Minister and the Grand Imam concerning disdaining religious sacredness.
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2001
The Islamic Research Institute rejected Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi’s fatwa permitting a married woman with children to host another couples’ zygote. It drove Prof. Bayoumi to withdraw his opinion for the sake of the integrity of the Muslim nation. Bayoumi said that the topic is still open for discussion...
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that neither Judaism nor Christianity approve of cloning. He believes that having a host mother is not allowed because in such a case we would not know who the real mother is. He is also of the opinion that pregnancy from a dead father is unnatural as the relation between a man...
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...
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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.