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Writing in 1999 for al-Usbūʿ newspaper, Hānī Zayyāt and Muṣṭafā Sulaymān expressed the
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An interview with Shaykh Muḥammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī tackling how Islam responds to some controversial issues such as terrorism, freedom of belief and Muslims living in non-Muslim countries. The questions are asked in English then translated into Arabic. The responses of Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī are...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The recent Bahā’ī jubilation following the Supreme Administrative Court ruling on March 16, 2009 which allows them to leave the religion box empty in their ID cards has been marred by an unprecedented sectarian attack against Bahā’ī’s houses in the Upper Egyptian village of al– Shūrānīyah in Sohag.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The article discusses the conference of ’The Minority in the Middle East’ headed by the Chief of the emigrated Copts, cĀdil Abādīr. The conference is mainly about minorities’ rights in the Middle East.
Date of source: Monday, December 11, 2006
The Supreme Administrative Court set the date of December 16, 2006 to release its final verdict on the issue of registering the Bahā’ī faith in official documents in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
A number of
Bahā’īs respond to the State Commissioner Authority’s report that considered them
murtad. The article stresses how the Bahā’īs will appeal this decree in an
attempt to
gain equal status as Egyptian citizens.
Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2006
Sawt
al-Ummah discusses a controversial book
published by the Ministry of Awqāf (Endowments), calling
for the killing of Bahā’īs.
Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
A recent Administrative
Judicial Court ruling allowing Egyptian Bahā’īs to have their religion recognized on official
documents and the issue of Bahā’ī marriage have been a subject of heated debate in the
Egyptian press.
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...
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.