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Date of source: Monday, December 11, 2006
The
article presents three important questions that deal with the sensitive
relationship between Christians and Muslims
in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2000 to Friday, June 9, 2000
Rose al-Youssef has taken upon
itself to confront two recent, suspicious, religion-related phenomena. One is the new breed of Shaykh
preaching in private
homes. The other is the hypocritical defense of Islām in the face of a wave of
offending literary works. There is now a
third phenomenon...
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2001 to Friday, August 31, 2001
In its seminar for this week, Rose El-Youssef discussed the reasons for the attraction of young people to sheikhs like Amr Khalid and how to deal with such sheikhs. All the religious men and intellectuals that were present agreed that a religious, political and cultural vacancy was behind this...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
A Brotherhood member who is also a member of a shooting club sent a message to several banks warning them about dealing with the current management board after he acquired a judicial ruling that the board had been formed in an illegal way.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 8, 2001
The article gives an overview of how Amr Khalid became a preacher. The author believes that he would soon be forgotten if he were prevented from preaching, especially as he does not say anything new, but just used a different discourse.
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001 to Friday, August 17, 2001
The author believes the Muslim Brotherhood helped Amr Khalid to become the sheikh of the elite and prevented him from teaching.
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2001 to Friday, August 10, 2001
Amr Khalid started by preaching in the houses of repented actresses and businessmen. It was a retired belly dancer who promoted him among them. Dr. Ahmed Ukasha analyzed the phenomena of Amr Khalid and his likes saying that young people gathers around him due to the intellectual vacancy they are...
Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2001
Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi said that he was proud of the fact that he made many former actresses wear the veil, stressing that there was no contradiction between the veil and acting as the veil is a religious duty, and acting is not a sin. He added that it was not strange to send his daughters to the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 26, 2001 to Friday, June 1, 2001
The public expected Iqra’ [recite, the very first word revealed in the Qur’an] satellite channel to offer an enlightened reading of Islam to agree with the givens of the new globalization time. However, the channel ended up by becoming the official channel for extremists and stagnant jurisprudence.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Professor Abdel-Sabour Shahin and Dr. Omar Abdel-Kafi explained everybody in Heaven will be thirty-three years old, the age of Christ when he ascended to Heaven [according to the Muslim version of the story]. They will also be as big as Adam, as good-looking as Joseph, and as well spoken as...
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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.