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Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2000
The polemic da’iya Shereen taught hundreds of women, from different social strata, to hold to their Islamic principals, and dedicated her efforts to extend religious culture, but she decided not to squeeze herself in issuing Fatwas "religious decrees", and she won’t defend herself as God defends...
Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2000 to Friday, March 31, 2000
The appointment of "non-Azhar" female scholars as theologians, and ignoring those who have graduated from the Azhar has provoked a controversy specially after the case of [a certain woman called] Shereen who taught women Islamic religion without obtaining the relevant permission while dozens of Al...
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2000 to Friday, March 17, 2000
This article talks about an extremist sheikh (whose name is not given) who had been very popular. He suddenly disappeared from the public scene after he was implicated in sexual immorality (according to some). However, he is back. This article asks why and how?
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
When the extremist secular Farag Foda killed himself [this is the formulation of the author. Foda was murdered. See the comments of the RNSAW in the text], Sheikh Al-Sharawi - may God rest his soul - shouted: "Allahu Akbar! If I was to kill anybody, I would have killed this man..."
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Sheikh Al-Sayyed Al-Qubeisi, head of the Union of Imams and the sheikh of Abu El-Ela’s mosque relates how when in Holland during the month of Ramadan, he noticed Moroccan Muslims. Instead of giving religious lectures, they buy buildings and convert them into mosques. When he offered his co-...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
Sheikh Omar Abd Al-Rahman, the leader and mufti of the Gama’at al-Islamiya, who is now imprisoned in the United States for a life, changed his mind about presenting a request to return to Egypt because he doesn’t want to give up his activities for the Islamic Daawa, the call to Islam.
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 1999
Many Islamic scholars question the value of artistic films. Many of them reject the representation of a sheikhh or ma’azun [marriage official] on the screen. Others, however, want to use the film as a means to spread Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 1999
King Fahd ordered distribution of 40,000 copies of the Holy Qur’an and its translation to a number of institutions inside and outside the Kingdom.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 1999
The 11th International Conference for the Higher Islamic Council (HIC) will start today in Cairo. The four-day international event "Towards a Renaissance Project for the Islamic World" is held under the auspices of President Hosni Mubarak. According to the Egyptian Minister of Waqfs who is also HIC...
Date of source: Friday, May 14, 1999
Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti of 25 years is dead, but his Islamic missionary efforts will continue via his extensive writings and an Internet web page.
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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.