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Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Amr Khaled, the well-known da’iya [a man who call for Islam,] has succeeded the banned Omar Abd Al-Kafi on the preaching pulpit of the Al-Seid club mosque and soon afterwards became very popular.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Contrary to what many people think, the phenomenon of the new preachers has not emerged during the past four or five months in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 25, 2002
The article discusses the issue of the right of Coptic writers to raise an Islamic subject and vice versa. The issue surfaced after the article which Christian journalist Mofied Fawzy allegedly wrote about Sheikh Amr Khaled.
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2002
In an unaired interview via Dream channel, the new general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood admits receiving funds from Saudi Arabia and attempting to assassinate president Abdel-Nasser. He speaks about the Brotherhood relation with the government, Pope Shenouda´s statement about granting Copts a...
Date of source: Saturday, August 31, 2002 to Friday, September 6, 2002
New Islamic preachers are not Azhar graduates. They have not studied religion as it should be studied. Yet, they turned into social stars with the help of the media. The question is: why could the Azhar not generate preachers who would be welcomed by the public and who would lecture the youths in a...
Date of source: Saturday, August 3, 2002
The author believes that sheikhs Amr Khaled and Al-Habib Al-Gafri are among the best young Muslim preachers. He finds it strange that the two sheikhs are criticized because they are said to be behind the retirement of many Egyptian actresses and because they preach people about the life stories of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 14, 2002
The Egyptian security agencies deported the Yemeni sheikh Habib Al-Gafri to Saudi Arabia for violating his conditions of residence. Al-Habib visited Egypt for education. However, he started to give religious lessons, especially after people encouraged him.
Date of source: Saturday, June 22, 2002 to Friday, June 28, 2002
The young talented actor Ahmad Al-Fishawi was reported to have given up acting, grown his beard and become a student of the preacher Amr Khaled or the preacher of resigned artists. Al-Fishawi said that if he had found something in Khaled´s lectures claiming that acting is haram [religiously...
Date of source: Monday, May 13, 2002
When a well-known da´iya [preacher] and a repented artist meet, this means that they are doing business. There must be an agreement between them to present satellite programs or record a tape containing some preaching by the da´iya, as a way of making money.
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2002
Dr. Muhammad Mugahed and Sheikh Khalid El-Gindi said that whoever does not believe in Muhammad as a prophet is a kafar [unbeliever], whether he is a polytheist, Jew or Christian. The author wonders what the reaction of a Christian youth who was thinking about committing a martyrdom operation in...
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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.