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Date of source: Wednesday, June 25, 1997
Dr. Refaat Sa’id discusses a new book about the Muslim Brothers in which the author argues that they are trying to give outsiders a moderate view of their organization, while in fact they are secretly involved in terrorist activities, either by carrying weapons or by encouraging others to use...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 18, 1997
The monk congratulates the sheikh in a letter to the editor with his sermon on TV which he sees as an example of religious tolerance. The fact that the monk felt that he had to write such a letter shows that not all preachers are like this sheikh.
Date of source: Friday, June 13, 1997
The article gives an Islamic view on the history of the Arab conquering of Christian
Egypt.
The article ends of views of different leading Muslims on the Hamayouni Law, the law regulating the
building of
churches.
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2006 to Friday, September 22, 2006
Sayyid Ghannām
writes about the latest controversial fatwá issued by the
muftī. The fatwá
argues that a woman who delivered a child four years after her
husband’s death is not adulterous and that pregnancy
can span more than nine months.
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2006
The
historical, cultural and ideological differences between Sunnī and
Shī‘ah
Muslims are outlined by different scholars in this article.
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2006
This article presents
different viewpoints from ordinary Egyptian people on the proposal to omit religion from Egyptian identity
cards.
Some find the idea unacceptable, others disagree.
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
The
article discusses a conference of Muslim-Christian dialogue between the Azhar’s Islamic
Research Academy and
the Episcopal Church in which the participants stressed the importance of cooperation for the
good of both
Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
The article
deals with intercultural dialogue held at
the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) in
which all participants agreed on the necessity
of changing religious discourse to strengthen the values of
equality and coexistence.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2006
In a Muslim-Christian dialogue meeting, the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Tantāwī, affirmed that jihād in Islam is exclusively for self-defense and not meant for attacking the innocent. He stressed the need to rectify this Western misconception about Islam.
Date of source: Monday, September 4, 2006
‘Amr Khālid is a young Egyptian Islamic preacher who has
gained huge
popularity in the Arab world in recent years. The author criticizes ‘Amr Khālid’s
stance towards
the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.
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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.