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Date of source: Saturday, September 3, 2011
Last week, Shaykh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president of the UAE and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, emphasized that conserving the rich Islamic scientific heritage and propagating it around the world are vital in promoting cultural dialogue, which, in turn, will inspire interest in...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
In a ground-breaking meeting, leaders of the Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood agreed on May 3, 2011 to join hands to spread moderate Islam.
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Ahmad al-Tayīb held rare talks in his office in Cairo with Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Badī' over means to unify religious...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Hundreds of clerics from Al-Azhar congregated on the Al-Azhar Mosque on 26 April 2011 to demand more independence for their institution and a touch of democracy in it. They chanted slogans against State control of Al-Azhar, and called on the government to give them financial independence. The...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Family Home initiative is officially underway, according to al-Misrī al-Yawm.
The paper reports that the Egypt Peace Society has convened its first conference related to the initiative, which aims to create a Muslim-Christian body to serve as a mouthpiece for both the Azhar and the Church.
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Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2010
According to the author, the Azhar, as an official religious institution, has taken over the religious state of affairs in Egypt, which has allowed the emergence of religious entities parallel to the Azhar that reject the its monopolization of Islamic Da‘wah.
The history of these associations...
Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 2010
Egyptian blogger Dalyā Ziyādah says she won the Anna Lindh Euro-Med Prize for writing an article in English criticizing the large number of women wearing niqāb and blaming it on the Azhar. The article says that the Anna Lindh foundation is considered suspicious for its relations with Zionism and...
Date of source: Thursday, April 16, 2009
Believing in the threat represented by the abnormal ideologies advocated by the Egyptian writer Nawāl al- Sa‘dāwī, a committee of Azhar scholars seeks to highlight the genuine core of Islam and tries to stand against such thoughts.
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2008
In 2002 the Ministry of Education introduced the subject ’ethics and values’ into the curriculum, however in recent years it have received substantial criticism and now seems to be on the way out.
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Has rejected the suggestion that the grand Imām be chosen from the members of the Islamic Research Academy.
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2007 to Friday, June 22, 2007
The article is based on a file that was issued by Rose al-Yūsuf magazine on the role held by religious men in both Christianity and Islam in society, and their disputes with each other.
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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.