Displaying 151 - 160 of 161.
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 1999 to Saturday, January 30, 1999
Sheikh Yassin Al-Tohamy gave a Sufi dhikr performance that energized the Al-Azhar neighborhood. One of his followers, Sheikh Mahmoud, was present. Years ago he converted from Christianity to Islam. One of the attractions of Sheikh Yassin’s chants is the ability to be faithful to Eastern musical...
Date of source: Saturday, January 16, 1999
Sufism advocates asceticism and meditation as a means of achieving rapturous union with the Divine, but now all you see is a smash of heterogeneous practices adopted in almost all Sufi orders.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 20, 1999
The state honored the Coptic writer, Counselor Edward Ghali El-Zahabi, former Chief of the Court of State (hai’it Qadaya el-Dawla), an authority on the study of the rights of non-Muslims in an Islamic society, and a former member of the People’s Assembly, on the occasion of the Holy Mulid of the...
Date of source: Monday, January 19, 1998
Yesterday, at dawn, the Muslims were performing the festival prayer, and in the evening, the Christians were celebrating" The Day of Epiphany. Accordingly, the way of the Egyptian’s living has changed. The iftar (breakfasting) tables became tables for love, sharing and brotherhood between the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 6, 1999
With the start of the month of Ramadan this year Antoine, a Christian youth from the governorate of Al-Minia, Ashraf and a member of the Rotary club have compiled a book under the title ’Prayer in Ramadan’.
Date of source: Monday, January 4, 1999
At the same time this year both Muslims and Christians are celebrating their feasts. While the Muslims are fasting the holy month of Ramadan, the Christians are celebrating Christmas day. As a yearly tradition the Copts have made ’Mawaud Al-Rahman’ (Tables of the Merciful) for Muslims to join them...
Date of source: Monday, January 4, 1999
When the month of Ramadan comes, it stirs an energy of faith and a spiritual life in one billion Muslims who are our brothers in humanity.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 6, 1998
A preacher forbids the celebration of Egypt’s most popular feast.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 29, 1998
Some Muslims do not like to see the link between Sham en-Nessim and Easter, the Christian feast of the resurrection of Jesus Christ which is denied in Islam.
Date of source: Thursday, April 9, 1998
Greeting form the Copts to the Muslims on the occasion of the eid-el-adha.
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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.