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Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2018
In the early hours of this morning, thousands of Egyptian men and women stood side by side to perform the ʿĪd Al-Aḍḥā prayer at the Muṣṭafā Maḥmūd Mosque in al-Muhandissīn.
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2018
Dr. Usāma al-Qūṣī, the Salafist preacher, criticized the Salafist boarding School called “al-Salafīyah al-Madkhalīyya” whose most famous shaykhs in Egypt are Muḥammad Sayyid Raslān, Maḥmūd ʿAbd al-Rāziq Raḍwāni, Ṭalʿat Zahrān and others - describing it as the most dangerous school on the Egyptian...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2018
The Catholic Center for Studies and Media, Jordan, published a report entitled “The Christians of Middle East Face Regional Conflicts and Terrorist Attacks”.
The report stated that numbers of Christians are dwindling amid conflict and jihadist attacks, for Pope Francis expressed his concern that...
Date of source: Monday, April 7, 2014
Mina Majdī, Maspero Youth Union spokesman stated that the political agreement between the Salafis and presidential nominee al- Sīsī is causing Copts much concern to the extent that some are revising their position and may withdraw from voting for al- Sīsī. He stated that Mursī has cooperated with...
Date of source: Sunday, September 30, 2018
The penetration of the Muslim Brotherhood and all Salafist and Islamist groups into Egyptian society over the last five decades, due to the negligence and complicity of the previous ruling regimes, is one of the biggest crimes committed against Egyptian society, culture, and identity in the past...
Date of source: Monday, March 31, 2014
Dr. Muhamad Mukhtār Gum’ah, Minister of Endowments, stated that a protocol was signed with the Salafi leaders including the Jam’iah al – Shari’iah and Ansār al- Sunnah al Muhammadiyah. The agreement was that a supervisor from the ministry would be appointed in the mosques’ boards in order to...
Date of source: Thursday, September 20, 2018
For the fifth year respectively, The Egyptian ministry of endowments announced on Wednesday's evening the closure of a shrine attributed to Imam al-Ḥussāyn binʿAlī in conjunction with the celebrations of ʿashūrā’ which began yesterday.
Egyptian security forces stepped up their presence in front of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 29, 2014
A Saudi Islamic scholar has requested his country’s authorities to chemically castrate men convicted of sexually harassing women. Sa’ūd ‘Abd Allah Finās, former Dean of Sharī’ah Faculty at the Imām University, stated during a phone call on Ya Halla show on Rotana Khalījiyah satellite channel that...
Date of source: Saturday, March 28, 2015
An Egyptian association, Ummah Wāhidah, is leading a relief campaign for Muslims of the Central African Republic who suffer from targeted killings and genocide. The campaign involves relief convoys to the refugee camps in the border areas with Chad and Cameron (Amr Hassan, al- Fath, March 28, p....
Date of source: Saturday, March 28, 2015
The Sufī tarīqahs (orders) have unanimously pledged support Field Marshall al- Sīsī’s presidential bid. It also announced that it would start collecting powers of attorneys necessary to support the nomination. Abd al- Hādī al Qasabī, Chair of the Council of Sufī Orders, states that “the nomination...
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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.