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Date of source: Friday, February 28, 2003
The Azhar and the Vatican have issued a joint statement in which they condemn launching a war against Iraq. It stresses that war has destructive consequences and means the failure of humanity. It will affect Muslim-Christian relations in the world.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
The violent contact between the East and the West contributed to the sophisticated ideological attitude towards Islam adopted by the West a long time ago. That is why Western speech about Islam is not limited to writings and theories. It is used to justify Western predominance over the East.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 28, 2002
The head of the Azhar Permanent Committee of Inter-Religious Dialogue says that dialogue with others is an Islamic concept and is very essential. He explains that despite the fact that dialogue with the west has been going on for a quarter a century, the goals it achieved are very few because...
Date of source: Sunday, February 10, 2002
The Crusades, with all its consequences and impacts, are a stumbling block in the way of the continuation of the relationship between the East and the West. Also associating Islam with terrorism and attacking some Islamic countries, in the name of fighting terrorism, is a cross road in their...
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
During last Thursday’s meeting of the Islamic Research Academy [http://www.isra.org.uk/], the grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, revealed an initiative to form an interfaith dialogue committee affiliated to the academy.
Date of source: Thursday, December 22, 2005
During a meeting with the Vatican’s ambassador to Egypt, Egyptian minister of awqāf [endowments], Dr. Mahmoud Hamdī Zaqzouq stressed the need for constructive interfaith dialogue to help clear up misunderstandings about Islam and Christianity.
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2005
Shaykh Fawzī al-Zafzāf, President of the Permanent Committee for Dialogue among the Monotheistic Religions at the Azhar, explains how the idea of dialogue dates to the early days of Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, October 16, 2005
Interfaith dialogue committees were established everywhere especially after the September 11 attacks. Egypt’s official interfaith dialogue committee under the Azhar is headed by Shaykh Fawzī al-Zifzāf. Shaykh al-Zifzāf is interviewed over the progress made by his committee.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 6, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Ali Al-Saman, the deputy-chairman of the Azhar Inter-Religious Dialogue Committee. He comments on the Muslim-Christian dialogue in the light of the US war on Iraq and the hostile relations between Islam and the West. He says that sending Christian missionary...
Date of source: Thursday, March 13, 2003
The article touches upon the background of the anti-war attitude of both Pope John Paul II and the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
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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.