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Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
The author argues that fatwas need to take into account the present time in a way that should make people’s lives better, stressing the need to develop religious discourse and focus on the sublime values and ethics that all religions and beliefs call for.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The author tackles the main reasons that lead to the appearance of terrorism
and the role played by the state to protect citizens.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Islam prescribes death penalty
for murder to alleviate the anguish of the relatives of the murdered person, the grand imām of
the
Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī says, explaining the reasons behind the
harsh
penalties imposed by Islam.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
Some people consider themselves as da‘iyas, although they are neither scholars of Qur’ān and Hadīth nor graduates of the Azhar. Such people are also being hosted on religion programs, on which they spread strange fatwas.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article deals with an incident in which a woman wearing a niqāb smashed a number of great works by a fine sculptor after a recent fatwa from the muftī saying that statues are not acceptable from a Muslim point of view.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article explores the opinions of graduates from the College of Fine Arts, who later became prominent figures in Egypt, on the ordeal the faculty is going through and the growing number of people believing that art is harām.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article focuses on the resignation offered by a professor in the fine arts college over a mounting ultra-religious trend that believes that art is harām [unacceptable from a Muslim point of view].
Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
An interview
with Pope Shenouda III to find out the reasons why he rejected the judicial ruling enjoining the church to
grant
remarriage permits to Copts who obtain divorces through the courts.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
President Mubārak is not alone in his opinion
that Iraqi Shi’ites are more
loyal to Iran than to Iran. Former Iraqi diplomats have the same
opinion.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
President Mubārak’s statements to al-
‘Arabīya satellite
channel have provoked angry reactions among Shi’ites in
Iraq. Mubārak said Iraqi Shi’
ites are more loyal to Iran than to their homeland.
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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.