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Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005
Nothing competes with the fatwa-issuing business in Egypt. Television, newspapers and the internet are stuffed with fame-craving shaykhs wrestling with differences in opinion about religious issues.
Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2005
The first question that comes to mind after the London explosions is: what took them so long? The answer may be that in the past four years the British authorities have succeeded in preventing attacks on a number of occasions.
Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2005
The Grand Imam of the Azhar, Shaykh Tantāwī, is currently in a state of extreme distress and it clearly shows on his face. The author discusses why this might be. He says newspapers issued in Egypt with foreign licenses have been firmly instructed not to level the slightest criticism at Dr. ‘Alī...
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005
When Dr. Amīna Wadoud designated herself as an Imām, leading the “American” Muslims who followed her, in a Friday prayer in New York, the Arabic and Islamic world flamed up with rage. The ulemas flared up and their appetites for issuing fatwas increased.
Date of source: Thursday, June 9, 2005 to Wednesday, June 15, 2005
The Muslim Brotherhood had a long history of political assassinations, going back to the 1930s and 1940s. At that time, it only took a fatwa to go ahead, and it was a source of pride to commit an act of assassination.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 5, 2005
In one of the three books reviewed on page 17 of this issue of al-Qāhira newspaper, Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī says he is one of the defenders of the Umayyad Dynasty, first among them the founder Mu‘āwiya Ibn Abī Sufyān.
Date of source: Sunday, July 3, 2005
I don’t know exactly how the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, has felt when he received in his office the detailed scenario of what should be done by the Azhar culamā’ and mosque imāms appointed by the Ministry of Awqāf [endowments] in support of President Husnī Mubārak in...
Date of source: Sunday, June 26, 2005
This paper discusses the rights and freedoms granted by the current Egyptian constitution as regards to the scope of freedom, the limitations imposed by legal and practical restrictions, and the extent to which this freedom conforms to the international conventions officially upheld by Egypt
Date of source: Saturday, December 11, 2004 to Friday, December 17, 2004
We wonder why the enmity against Islam. The West wonders why Muslim fundamentalists held the West responsible for their ignorance, hostility and terrorism. Thousands occasions have discussed that issue trying to understand the so-called "the other.”
Date of source: Sunday, December 5, 2004
Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood said it was disturbed by the trial of key activist Wagdi Ghoneim in the United States, after a fresh charge of antagonizing U.S. policies was added to the bill of indictment.
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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.