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Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Terrorism, extremism, sectarian sedition and the rise of the Baha’ī
religion are all the
consequences of the diminishing role of religious institutions and political, economic
and social factors.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006
The author says that chaos, nepotism and favoritism have become a
sad feature of
daily life in the Azhar’s religious institutes sector in Kafr al-Sheikh. The under-secretary
in Kafr
al-Sheikh [Reviewer: No name or ministry mentioned. Most probably of the Ministry of Awqāf
(Endowments)] uses...
Date of source: Thursday, March 30, 2006
Dr. Hasan Muhammad Wajīh writes about two visits by Prince Charles to Egypt. Prince Charles’ visit to the Azhar in 1995 mainly focused on improving intercultural interaction between Islam and the West. His visit in 2006, however, was marked by a ceremony during which he received an honorary...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
In an interview with Subhī Mujāhid from Rose al-Yousuf, Shaykh Ibrāhīm ‘Atā al-Fayyoumī, secretary-general of the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, explains the real role of the Azhar and clarifies its judicial authority to confiscate books.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
The article is an interview with Nabil Abdel Fattah, assistant manager of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, on the issue of renewing the religious discourse. He comments on the attempts of some intellectuals to associate the concept of renewing the religious discourse with the...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
The article is an interview with Sheikh Gamal Qutb, former head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee. He presented his assessment of the religious discourse of the Azhar. He believes that the discourse of the Azhar is suffering from the same problems the Islamic religious discourse suffers from all over...
Date of source: Monday, November 10, 2003
The article reports about measures taken by the American Administration to force countries of the Middle East to apply democracy. It also mentions that reports accusing the Azhar of funding some terrorist group are being circulated within various American government offices.
Date of source: Saturday, November 1, 2003
Al-Ahram Al-Arabi devoted a special file of eight articles to the Azhar, as the biggest religious institution in the Islamic world. The file is a comparison between the status of the Azhar in the past and today. In the past, the Azhar played a great role in many fields, religious and national....
Date of source: Tuesday, October 7, 2003
The author comments on the historical and religious status of the Azhar. He believes that the great status of the Azhar is somehow deteriorating. He discussed the reasons behind this in the light of the attitude of the Azhar towards of the fatwa of the Iraqi Transitional Ruling Council.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Christian writer Suleiman Shafiq introduced a controversial paper in the second annual conference for human rights in Egypt. He deals with the legal crisis of Egyptian Christians and focuses on discrimination practiced against them.
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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.