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Date of source: Saturday, April 27, 2002 to Friday, May 3, 2002
Many Muslim scholars explained that, according to the Shari´a, it is not right to use mosques for demonstrations. Mosques are places for worship and preaching, holy places that should not be a place for shouting and gathering. Expressing anger and dissatisfaction could be done through collecting...
Date of source: Saturday, April 13, 2002
Robin Wright, the head of diplomatic correspondents in the Los Angeles Times, wrote the book of “The Wrath of Militant Islam” in which she analyzed the September 11 attacks. She wrote that Islam is the most tolerant religion and that both America and Ben Laden distorted the meaning of jihad in...
7. The Sheikh of the Azhar: The victims of the train of Upper Egypt are considered shahids [martyrs]
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2002
The Sheikh of the Azhar was at the head of those who offered condolences at the collective funeral held for the victims of the Upper Egypt train accident. He said that the victims of the train accident are shahids [martyrs].
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2002
The Arabic section of the Voice of America interviewed some Muslim scholars and imams to give their opinions on issues like terrorism, jihad and the right of the USA to respond to the September 11 attacks. Such interviews were taped and hundreds of thousands of tapes were copied and send to the...
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2002 to Friday, February 15, 2002
The Grand Imam speaks about the agreement the Azhar signed with the Anglican Church. He said that there would be more agreements with other churches in the future. He added that the most important thing is that the dialogue should not focus on creeds. It should focus more on supporting the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 10, 2002
The Dutch Government decided to oblige the Muslim imams to join training courses whose goal is to teach them the basics of the Dutch laws, language and culture. According to the Dutch Parliament, the decision was made in order to oblige the imams to do their missions according to their respect to...
Date of source: Thursday, January 10, 2002
Mr. Amr Khaled succeeded in reaching the hearts and minds of the youths. He makes dialogue with them to provoke them to compare between obeying and disobeying God. He fills the empty religious and psychological spaces that most of the youths have. Instead of criticizing this young man and closing...
Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2002
The Egyptian Opera House will witness a celebration of national unity. The celebration will include an opera performance that narrates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and the entry of the Holy Family to Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
During last Thursday’s meeting of the Islamic Research Academy [http://www.isra.org.uk/], the grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, revealed an initiative to form an interfaith dialogue committee affiliated to the academy.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
This press review tackles the Sunni-Shiite clashes in Iraq, the Egyptian initiative forwarded by top Sunni Muslim scholars in Egypt to bring an end to the violence, and the exchanged assaults on the shrines of both sides.
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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.