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Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
The Administrative Court scheduled May 4 to start looking into a complaint raised by lawyer Nabih Al-Wahsh, requesting stripping the sheikh of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, of his membership in the Islamic Research Institute, as a step towards suspending him. Al-Wahsh mentioned his...
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
Some Jewish rabbis issue fatwas in the name of Jewish law that makes the killing of military as well as civilian Palestinians an obligation. The rabbis warn Jews that not killing the Palestinians is against the Halakah, the Jewish law, and is a violation of the religious obligations. Is this not...
Date of source: Saturday, April 10, 2004
The late William Soliman Qilada played a role in his generation of the 1940s and the 1950s. His achievements include a historiography for the State Council and important studies on the history of civil law in Egypt. He also wrote about the Egyptian experience of national unity in “Muslims and...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
We were mistaken to think that religious extremism that attacks creativity faded away in the recent years. In Sheikh Zayed City in Egypt, where the head of the City destroyed two statues decorating its entry after some fundamentalists put pressure on him. For they think that these statues are just...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 2004
The newspaper of Mussaf Shabatpublished a report in Hebrew which it claimed to contain some fatwas believed in by all Muslims word-wide.Among these fatwas published by the newspaper is that all Muslims all over the world believes that it is necessary to annihilate the Jews and Americans in order to...
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
The phenomenon of the new preachers who were imposed on us as muftis is worthy of thorough examination. We need to know where those preachers received their training and how many accredited books each of them has authored? We need to know whether a preacher is able to give fatwas. Everybody has the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 2004
Montaser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of fundamentalists in Egypt, responded to the accusations directed to him by the Palestinian fundamentalist Abu Qatada, currently detained in Britain. Al-Zawahry said that Abu Qatada and others similar to him are blowing in fire and ignite strife in spite of the fact...
Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2004
A few days ago, I witnessed a highly sophisticated intellectual discussion at a lecture in Paris given by Gamal Al-Banna. In his lecture, he outlined the main points of his project: To purify the heritage of all the deposits that separate us from the Holy Qur’an. He said that we live in a confused...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 2004
In his book “Al-Walla wa Al-Baraa” [infidelity and renouncement], Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahry collected a number of verses to prove that any true Muslim must not be loyal to pagans and People of the Book and to renounce non-Muslims and take them as enemies.
That is why the Qa’eda organization insists on...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2004
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Sayyed Tantawi, rejected any interference in the affairs of Muslims under the guise of calls for change and reform. He announced that no one interferes in Al-Azhar’s affairs, including the President or any other authority in the country. He also stressed that...
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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.