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Date of source: Friday, March 22, 2002
The Cairo Personal Status Court refused to hear the first case of khula? filed by a
Christian wife. The court based its judgment on the on the commandment of the Bible that the wife should not be
separated from her husband except for marital unfaithfulness. Lawyers of other Coptic wives asking...
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[Khul‘‘ is wife?s request for
divorce in return for the dowry and gifts she had received from him].
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Egypt?s new Muftī stressed that there will be coordination among the different
Islamic institutions to arrive at a unified Islamic opinion and to help people avoid confusion that results from
contradictory Fatāwá. He said that he is a son of the Azhar and so he will be keen on not issuing Fatāwá...
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The dean of the
Faculty of Dār al-‘Ulūm said that Shaykh Attya Saqr?s Fatwá that considers handshaking between men and women H...
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The book Dianetics which was reported to preach a new religion, that
is Scientology, received great attention from the Egyptian press. Many papers scanned the contents of the book and
commented on them. All papers touched upon the issue connected between the new religion and attempts on the part...
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Some papers claimed that the Shaykh of the Azhar refused
to extend the period in office of Dr. Nasser Farid Wassel as a Muftī for Egypt and appointed instead of him Dr. Ahmad
El-Tayyeb because the former Muftī issued many Fatāwá that corticated his Fatāwá. Other papers shed light on the...
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Rose al-Youssef asked Muslim
scholars, education and security experts their opinions on how to protect the Egyptian society against the return of
terrorism. Security experts warned for the phenomenon of repentance among terrorists, pointing out that this is a
matter of deception. Education...
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The Egyptian Cassation Court annulled the
sentences given by the Supreme State Security Court against Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and against 18 of the other 27
defendants. It also ordered their retrial and refused the defense request to stay the execution of the seven years
imprisonment sentence...
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Akher Saa and Sawt al-Ummah give a detailed overview of an article
published in the American magazine Newsweek under the title ?The Qur?an and the Bible... Differences and Common
Denominators.? The point both papers strongly objected to is the fact that Newsweek published pictures of the Prophet...
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Most of the Egyptian papers levelled harsh criticism against the
Alexandria inter-religious dialogue conference. The papers described the conference as a ?scandal? and as another ?
crime? committed by the Shaykh of the Azhar. At the same time, they praised the attitude of Pope Shenouda, who...
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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.