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Date of source: Monday, December 18, 2000
After President Mubarak appointed Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi in the parliament, rumors claimed that his appointment is aimed to oppose the Muslim Brothers in the Parliament. Dr. Bayoumi believes that his rivals are behind such rumors. The General Guide of the Brotherhood said that Bayoumi is not a...
Date of source: Saturday, December 2, 2000 to Friday, December 8, 2000
Some extremists attacked Sheikh Abdel Hamed Bekhit, teaching at the Faculty of Religious Fundamentals [Usul el-Din], because he issued a fatwa that allows students who have troubles in concentrating on their exams because of the fasting to break their fast. The fatwa was strongly opposed by...
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2000
In the Student Union elections of this year in the Egyptian Universities the extremists lost. The moderate current won the elections in all the faculties with the exception of the faculty of Medicine, where the religious current won 25% of the positions. Extremists no longer control the Faculty of...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 3, 2000
The dean of the Faculty of Usul Al-Din [Usul Al-Din College forming part of the Azhar University in Egypt. Literally means ’fundamentals of religion’, which is a mixture of theology and philosophy.] has issued a Fatwa [religious decree given by a Muslim scholar, or a Mufti] in Cairo permitting the...
Date of source: Monday, October 2, 2000
Gamal Badawi, the editor in chief of Sout Al-Azhar resigned because the Sheikh of the Azhar did not listen to his requests regarding improvement of the conditions of those who work for the paper. Most of those who work for the paper have refused to co-operate with the new editor in chief.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 30, 2000
The president of the Azhar University attacked the requests for accepting non-Muslims at the Azhar University, confirming that according to the law the Azhar is an Islamic University for Muslims. In addition, The General Secretary of the Islamic Universities Association, said that there is no...
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2000
In this article, the writer asks the president of the Azhar University many questions concerning the demonstration of the Azhar students against Haider’s novel and the criticism directed to him.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000 to Friday, May 12, 2000
Rose el-Youssef wants a debate with Abdel Kafi and El-Ada’iya and claims they cannot support their arguments with documentary evidence. Rose el-Youssef also claims their campaign has strong support from religious people, newspapers and public opinion. They also claim that their aim "is to protect...
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2000 to Friday, May 5, 2000
As there was no alternative, people went to the alleged Da’iya sessions. Some of them had great difficulty in consulting the right people of the Azhar over their religious concerns, because these sheikhs from the Azhar set the religion behind the stars as if they were trying to avoid problems.
Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2000 to Friday, March 31, 2000
The appointment of "non-Azhar" female scholars as theologians, and ignoring those who have graduated from the Azhar has provoked a controversy specially after the case of [a certain woman called] Shereen who taught women Islamic religion without obtaining the relevant permission while dozens of Al...
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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.