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Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, April 6, 2001
The hair cover of the Muslim woman has different shapes and several names that have to do with the local cultures rather than the rules that had been set by the Islamic Shari’a [Islamic law]. Wearing the hijab [hair cover] is still one of the controversial issues in the Islamic world. This...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt said that Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi disapproves of religious matters while being fully aware of it, maintaining and insisting on her disapproval and obscenities. Thus according to the Shari’a [Islamic Law], she steps out of the area of Islam and leaves Muslim society.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
The Mufti believes that Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s broke the boundaries of good manners and morals and that her opinion concerning transplantation of sexual organs leads to the undesirable mixing of lineage. He stressed that the hijab [hair cover] is clothing in accordance with the Qur’an and the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Dr. Adel Sabour Shahin said that Nawal Al-Sa’adawi was a heretic and a communist who does not believe in God. Dr. Suade Salah, the former dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, said that her opinions are considered a deviation from religion as she denied one of the main essentials in Islam, that...
Date of source: Saturday, February 17, 2001 to Friday, February 23, 2001
An American lady, living in Egypt, filed a lawsuit before an Egyptian court claiming that she was persecuted because she is a Shiite. Her husband, who is also her lawyer, is a Shiite but he differs from them in many ways. He wants to get a permit to build a mosque, a hospital and a graveyard. This...
Date of source: Friday, February 9, 2001
The author believes that faith cannot be the product of compulsion. It is unimaginable that any heavenly religion, Judaism, Christianity or Islam, can be founded on compulsion to join it. These three religions accepted and approved the religions that came before them: Judaism tells stories of the...
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2001
Scholars of the Azhar and Ayatollahs held a conference in Iran in an attempt to bring the Sunnite and Shiite denominations closer together. All the different trends in Iran welcomed the role of the Azhar in bringing the Islamic denominations closer. The conference honored Imam Al-Bargroudi, one of...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
Essam Al-Erian, one of the prominent leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, said that raising young men and the entire Egyptian nation on Islam and moralities is the way towards forming an Islamic community. He added that there is no difference between political parties concerning general principles....
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
Although the four major Sunna [orthodox] schools are the famous Islamic schools of thought in Egypt, Egypt was dominated by the Shiite’s for more than 200 years during the Fatimid era. The Shiite faith did not continue in Egypt because many of its denominations were extreme and this did not suit...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
The Mufti declared that his fatwa about the legality of defending a spy was misinterpreted. He said that the real meaning of his fatwa is that the spy who confessed betraying his country should not be defended because defending him may encourage others to commit the same crime. If he considers...
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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.