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Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The article praises a court ruling repealing a previous ruling that gave
Egypt’s nearly 1000
Bahā’īs the right to have their faith registered in official documents, with
opinions by
intellectuals that Bahā’ism is not a religion and that the only religions recognized in Egypt
are the
divine...
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2006
The author, a member of the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, affirms that Islam does not accept the ‘Urfī marriage because it is not registered and consequently would cause the rights of either party of the ‘Urfī couple to be lost, since the courts of law acknowledge only marriage contracts...
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author reviews the
opinions of university professors about the enactment of an
international law criminalizing any assaults on the
Muslim faith in particular or divine religions in
general.
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
A few days ago, the
president of the American University in Cairo (AUC), David
Arnold, decided to remove Islamic and Arabic contents
from a number of AUC textbooks, including syllabi in
Islamic history, Arabic literature and social sciences. A
large number of the university’s staff has...
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Christians in Egypt have rejected a document
that is alleged by
some to allow missionary work in Egypt, arguing that it will increase tension between Muslims
and Copts.
AWR has already published Shaykh al-Zifzāf’s denial fo these claims, with a link
to the
full text of the document.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
In this article, the author discusses the latest crisis of the ‘Document of Religious Rights’, signed by the Azhar, which he claims allows proselytizing. The author believes that such problems could be avoided by involving the Islamic Research Academy further in such matters.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
To revive the
Azhar, many professors and
scholars advocate choosing the shaykh of the Azhar by election
instead of appointment.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The author tackles the criticism made by
Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī against the
Azhar for not being active in the cartoon crisis.
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2006
Despite having been banned by the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, Natana J. Delong-Bas’s ‘Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global
Jihad’ has received massive support from the Saudi government. Hanān Sulaymān provides a book review.
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2001 to Friday, November 2, 2001
A lawyer raised a case to prevent the film "To make God love you"
from being shown because the word "God" in the title was associated with a picture of a young man and two girls in
an improper position. He tried to obtain a fatwa to support his legal case, by sending a complaint with the case...
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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.