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Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 1999
Whenever there is any dispute about a religious matter, all the people will be waiting for the opinion of Al-Azhar or its fatwa [legally binding opinion] concerning this matter. This will relieve people of their doubts. But when the Azhar keeps silent... then who will answer?
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
In a fresh development in the continuing battle of the Front of Al-Azhar scholars, a report by the State Commissioners Authority has come out in favor of its dissolution, which was decided last year by Cairo Governor Abdel-Rehim Shehata. The Authority will submit its report to the Supreme...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
Delegations from 75 Islamic countries and six international Islamic countries and six international Islamic organizations participating in the 11th Cairo International Islamic Conference will tomorrow declare the recommendations of their conference.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999
In the opening session of the Islamic conference, Minister of Endowments Hamdi Zaqzouq delivered a speech on behalf of President Mubarak in which he called for serious thinking on the issue of "The renaissance of the Islamic world" which is what the conference is about.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 1999
The 11th International Conference for the Higher Islamic Council (HIC) will start today in Cairo. The four-day international event "Towards a Renaissance Project for the Islamic World" is held under the auspices of President Hosni Mubarak. According to the Egyptian Minister of Waqfs who is also HIC...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999
The eleventh meeting of the International Conference of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs will begin next Tuesday [22 June 1999] morning at the Marriott Hotel, Cairo. The Conference is being organized under the patronage of President Hosni Mubarak who will give an opening address which the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Sixty-nine Islamic countries and six Islamic organizations will take part in the 11th Islamic conference scheduled to open on Tuesday [June 22, 1999]. Addressing a news conference at the headquarters of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Hamdi Zaqzouq, minister of Al-Awqaf (religious...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 16, 1999
Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin, who accused who previously filed a Hesba case against Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid accusing him of apostasy and causing the handing down of a judicial verdict divorcing Zaid from his wife, Dr. Ibtihaal Younnes, a development which led Abu Zaid and his family to emigrate from...
Date of source: Friday, June 11, 1999
The author of the article asks why the syllabus proposed by the Ibn Khaldoun Institute tries to persuade pupils that the Prophet erred and opposes claims that Mosque speakers incite Muslims against Christians.
Date of source: Friday, June 4, 1999
[Note: The same news was published in all Egyptian newspapers of that day.]
On the morning of June 3, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak received the Grand Imam Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi the Sheikh Al-Azhar, and 19 prominent muslim clerics at the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis yesterday morning...
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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.