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Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2007 to Friday, March 23, 2007
Rajab al-Murshidī reports on Councilor Majdī al-Jārhī’s declarations concerning appointing women and Christians as judges in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2007 to Friday, March 23, 2007
Wafā’ Shu‘ayrah and Rajab al-Murshidī report on the opinions of different councilors and judges in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2007
A student who underwent a sex-change operation is told by the president of the Azhar University that she is not allowed to return in order to finish her studies. The student intends to sue the Muftī for the fatwá he issued that defaming her reputation. She removed her Ḥijāb to prove to everyone...
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2008
In his new fatwá, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah permits women to work as a ma’dhūn, saying that it complies with the Abū Hanīfah scholarship.
Date of source: Saturday, March 10, 2007
Egyptian Muftīī ‘Alī Jum‘ah announces the launch of a project enabling free, all-day access to Fatwás in four languages.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Clerics who appear on television screens think they are box-office stars and engage in polemical arguments in the extremely risky field of Fatwás.
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Among the supporters and rejecters, the Syrian Muftī says in a meeting with scholars, officials, and students, that there should be an amendment to article 528 in the Syrian penal code regarding lightening the punishments of crimes of honor.
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2007
‘Aṣfūr questioned how the Islamic Research Academy permitted a book written by Saudi Muftī Bin Bāz in which he delivered a Fatwá that prohibited women from working, and another book which states that ‘Urfī marriage is legitimate and that official marriage contracts are a fad that do not exist in...
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2007
The author criticizes Egyptian Muftī Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah for his frequent appearances on local TV and satellite channels. Rather than being a religious figure, the writer proclaims himself to be a TV announcer.
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2004
It seems that all the battles that break out between the Azhar and the Americans are predestined to fail. To illustrate, the former Muftī issued a Fatwá that anybody who detonates himself among Israelis is a martyr. Another Fatwá by ShaykhShaykh Nabawī al-cIsh says it is forbidden to deal with the...
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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.