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Date of source: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Al-Dustūr published a two-page file on niqāb in Egypt. About 17 percent of Egyptian women wear niqāb. Authors of the files tried to point out the reasons behind the phenomenon.
Date of source: Saturday, May 31, 2008
Al-Shaymā’ ‘Abd al-Latīf reports on Jamāl al-Bannā’s book about Muslim women and the hijāb.
Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Members of the People’s Assembly have warned against issuing a license for female-only mosques, saying that such step would violate Sharī‘ah and Islamic teachings.
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2008
The Administrative Court has rejected a lawsuit that was filed by the Muslim convert to Christianity, Muhammad Hijāzī and has allowed Bahā’ī’s to leave the religion field empty or write "other" on their identity cards. The Egyptian press reported the two rulings and commented on the increasing...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 5, 2007
The Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda is an attempt to establish an Islamic theocracy in Egypt in the name of civil state. The group is manipulating people and using vague language to achieve their aims.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2007
The article presents an overview of a group calling themselves the Quranists. Dr. Jamāl al-Bannā highlights the group’s stances on certain issues, their history, and what sets them apart from other Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2006
The widespread phenomenon of the Niqāb in Egyptian society has provoked strong reaction from many thinkers and writers, as well as from well-known European politicians, including Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Commons, who said in a recent statement that wearing the "full veil" [...
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
The review takes up the issue of the niqāb as Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, called on Muslim women in Britain to take off their veils in workplaces, while in Egypt, the President of Hilwān University made a decision to prohibit all niqāb-wearing students from entering the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 22, 2006
Exchanging greetings between men and women is allowed in Islām, Shaykh al-
Qaradāwī states, indicating that the voice of a woman is not cawrah. The
wives of the prophet, with all the constraints imposed on them, were permitted to talk to men and to respond to
their questions from behind a curtain...
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2006 to Friday, June 30, 2006
The author discusses the issue of the Muslim dress code for men and women, arguing that proving the dress covers the awra, those parts of the human body that Islam has decreed should not to be revealed except to spouses and immediate family members, is indeed an Islamic costume.
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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.