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Date of source: Tuesday, October 14, 2003
The Azhar and the Ministry of Endowments started the implementation of a plan to send 37 scholars and preachers to 48 countries during the month of Ramadan to refute wrong ideas about Islam and combat the ideologies of fundamentalist groups.
Date of source: Saturday, October 11, 2003
The article is an interview with the new Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Ali Gom´a. He comments on the issues of Sufism, renewing the religious discourse, issuing fatwas, modern Islamic preachers, Islam-West relations, apostasy in Islam, hisba lawsuits and applying the hudood [punishments for certain sins] of...
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2003
The Minister of Endowments refutes the claims concerning unifying the subject of the Friday sermon and foreign intervention in the Islamic religious discourse. He also comments on the issue of renewing the religious discourse.
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2003 to Friday, September 26, 2003
Women are eager to work in the field of Da´wa [Islamic missionary activity] and study Islamic dogma to the degree that they have excelled men. People who are responsible for Da´wa say that this is due to the awareness of women of her role to correct some misunderstood conceptions. The cultural...
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2003 to Friday, September 26, 2003
M.A., a student at the Faculty of Commerce, went to the Faculty mosque for prayers and attending the weekly religious lesson given by another student. She was astonished to see that the student giving the lesson brought a shroud out of her bag, in order to give them a lesson in preparing the dead...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 28, 2006
A discussion on the phenomenon of Islamic preachers spreading superstitious stories, which began in the women’s carriages of the metro, but now seems to have spread across Egyptian society.
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2003
The author reports that the Italian authorities dismissed the Imam of the main mosque in Rome following his sermon urging jihad. This sermon was greatly attacked by leaders of a Zionist organization based in France and work under the cover of human rights. The Simon Wiesenthal Center considered the...
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2003
Dr. Hassan Khader, deputy of the Ministry of Endowments, comments on the reasons why the ministry monitors mosque imams and preachers.
Date of source: Saturday, June 28, 2003 to Friday, July 4, 2003
For many years, Saudi Arabia imagined that terrorism which infected many Arab countries will never reach it. The Saudi Kingdom overlooked extremists living on its lands and the financial support given by Saudi NGO´s to extremists on the pretext of supporting Islamic activities. The kingdom saw...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 18, 2003
The author approached many figures to comment on what she calls the American campaign against the Egyptian press and religious institutions. She reports that American papers accuse the Egyptian press of stirring up hatred against the US and rejecting the American policies in the Middle East. At the...
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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.