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Date of source: Tuesday, January 15, 2013
As preparations for Christmas celebrations continued, the Coptic Church submitted a detailed memo to the presidency in Egypt about amendments it would like to see made to the new Constitution.
These included deleting Article 219, which states that the "principles of Islamic sharī’ah include...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
Meanwhile, under the auspices of Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, the top Sunni Muslim institution is hosting a meeting called by the General Congress for the Support of al-Quds (GCSQ) in a bid to launch an international campaign to break the siege on al-Quds (Jerusalem) and its...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Researcher Islām Biḥayrī described discussions about reconciliation with the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood as “the crisis of all crises,” from which Egypt and the surrounding region would not recover again. In a long interview with al-Dustūr, Biḥayrī said: the Brotherhood got a proper chance to...
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The interview was recorded and transcribed by Quinta Smit. Dr. ʿImād Shāhīn has seen and approved this transcript. This interview was part of an Arab-West Report project for a book on Islamist movements during the year 2013. Data collected were placed online in June 2016.
Prof. ʿImād Shāhīn is an...
Date of source: Thursday, February 1, 2007
Muṣṭafā al-Fiqī was born in al-Beḥīrah governorate in November 1944. In 2005, al-Fiqī defended the amendment that was proposed by President Ḥusnā Mubārak to article 67 of the Egyptian constitution. The amendment, which was approved in a public referendum, allows multi-candidate presidential...
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2007
This biography focuses on the Islamic viewpoints of Āḥmad al-Ṭayyib; how he argues from an Islamic perspective and does not attempt to see the world through the eyes of non-Muslims. He strives to represent Islam in the best possible light, talking about it in a very positive way and accordingly...
Date of source: Friday, April 24, 2015
The Ministry of Endowments in the governorate of Fayūm conducted a campaign of raids confiscating books from a number of mosques. The raids appeared to target mosques following the group al-Shawqīūn al-Takfīrīyūn. Doctor ‘Abd al-Nasr Nasīm ‘Atyān, a representative for the Ministry of Endowments in...
Date of source: Saturday, February 6, 2016
Thousands of young people from Western countries have gone to Syria during recent years to fight under the black flag of what Prof. Schleifer calls “the most brutal and threateningly successful jihadist group, calling itself the Islamic State.” The British Tony Blair Foundation recently published a...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 15, 2015
During an aired interview on 'Sada Al-Balad' (Echo of the city) Channel, former deputy of the Constitutional Court, Dr. Tahāni al-Jibāli said that Egypt should not join the Islamic Military Alliance that Saudi Arabia had recently formed to battle terrorism in the Muslim World, denouncing 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.