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Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The recent plans of
the Egyptian
Ministry of Awqāf [Endowments] to introduce a single call to prayer has met with huge
opposition
from the public and a number of Muslim scholars, arguing that the unification of the azān
runs
contrary to the Islamic sharī‘a.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
The author investigates the practice of an international
football referee,
Muhammad al-Sayyīd, who has reportedly stopped several games in the football league to
listen to the
adhān.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The Ministry of
Awqāf’s plan to unify the
Azān [The call to prayer] in Cairo’s mosques has provoked
heated controversy in Muslim circles.
Opponents to the plan say that introducing a single call to prayer, delivered
by a radio network,
contradicts the teachings of Islam. The minister of...
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
The minister of
Awqāf, Dr. Hamdī Zaqzuq said that the unification
of the call to prayers will return the
sanctity and spirituality to the call instead of allowing random and noisy
voices. He also tried to allay
public concern about a possible plan to standardize Friday sermons.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
The government has supplied 4000
recievers to the
mosques of Greater Cairo as part of a plan to unify the call to prayer, but some suspect a US plan
to unify
the Friday sermons and eventually cancel the dawn prayer.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
The Egyptian
Ministry of
Awqāf [endowments] has recently endorsed a proposal to unify the call to prayer that is
broadcast
from thousands of different loudspeakers in the country’s capital.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The author reviews a book by a Muslim physician/intellectual about some ill concepts by Muslims regarding religion and some practices mistakenly taken as religious orders.
Date of source: Friday, March 23, 2007
In al-Musawwar magazine’sinterview with the grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Sayyid Muhammad Ṭanṭāwī, Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī expressed his opinion and attitude on all the issues on the Arab and Islamic scenes.
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
A symposium on "the secularization of the state," organized under the aegis of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, has turned into a Coptic-Muslim Brotherhood debate on canceling the second article of the Egyptian constitution, which makes Islam the state religion, and Islamic sharī‘a the...
Date of source:
Nāhid ‘Izzat writes that while some Muslims are being attacked in the West, some objective officials and writers are doing their best to correct the Western false perceptions about Islam, and in Austria, it has even been decided to allow the Adhān [call to prayer] inside the parliament building.
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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.