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Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
The Azhar recently released a fatwá that calls for tough penalties against people who convert to Islam and then revert back to their original religion. Opinions are divided as to what effect this fatwá could have on Egyptian society.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, the grand imām of the Azhar, works hard to gain the regime’s appreciation and incurs many Azhar scholars and shaykh’s enmity because of his stances toward different issues.
Date of source: Thursday, January 3, 2008
The article reports on the objection of 11 members of the Egyptian Parliament to a draft law prohibiting demonstrations in houses of worship.
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2007
The author quotes a statement of a human rights group, in which it defends the Coptic businessman Najīb Sawirus’s right to express his opinion. A few weeks ago, Sawirus was reported as attacking the Ḥijāb along with other features of religious extremism.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The following text presents a number of the most popular Islamic Dā‘iyahs in the modern time.
Date of source: Monday, November 19, 2007
The author, Fahmī Huwaydī, refuses any form of security interference in the hiring process of new Muslim clerics at the Ministry of Endowments.
Date of source: Sunday, October 28, 2007
The article discusses how fanaticism is only being further spread on the Egyptian streets with the distribution of CD’s that deride the beliefs of others.
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2007
The ideas of the Islamic groups’ ideological reviews do not differ from the ideas of the Azhar scholars who support the ruling regimes.
Date of source: Sunday, October 28, 2007
The article presents an interview between Watani International and Dr. ‘Abd al-Mū‘tī Bayyūmī about the process that the Islamic Research Academy employs when choosing to approve or ban any literary works.
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2007
The recent clash between journalists and the grand Imām of the Azhar after the latter’s controversial speech, in which he demanding punishing rumor-mongers and false reporters with 80 lashes, has marked a new critical turning point in the already-strained relations between non-governmental press...
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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.