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Date of source: Saturday, May 24, 2014
Dr. Ahmad Karīmah, professor of sharī’ah at al- Azhar University, stated that the World Union of Islamic Scholars headed by Yūssuf al- Qaradāwī does not represent sharī’ah.
Date of source: Monday, October 8, 2018
Dr. Fātḥī Fikrī, professor of constitutional law and member of the ten-man expert committee for drafting the constitution, said that al-Azhar has no power to submit a draft law to the Parliament except through the government.
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2018
Eildert Mulder takes issue with Janneke Stegeman’s claim of “the myth of religiously motivated violence.” Of course, there is more than only religiously motivated violence, but Islamic extremists have demonstrated that Islamic inspired violence exists, however much this is despised by the great...
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2018
Dr. Janneke Stegeman, a Dutch Protestant Christian theologian and researcher in the Old Testament, religion, conflict and peacebuilding, believes ecumenism between Christians, Muslims and Jews should be seriously considered. Stegeman’s arguments are given and so is the critique on her arguments by...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 17, 2018
The village of Dimshāw has become the scene of tensions between Muslims and Christians because Christians wanted to change a prayer house into a church building. It happens a lot that Christians in villages with no or insufficient church buildings meet for prayer in a house. Generally Muslims in...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Dr. Wahīd ‘Abd al-Majīd, the official spokesman for the constituent assembly, said Article II has not been officially discussed inside the relevant committee on mainstays of the society or the general sessions in the assembly. [Ahmad Fathī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, July 8, p. 5] Read original text in...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Some are depicting the sharī’ah as if it is sheer penal code but it eventually acts like a security fence protecting the society, the people and the nation in accordance with controls not like any other controls included in any given man-made laws. [Yusrī Hammād, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 8, p. 17] ...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Scholars from the Azhar attacked demands by al-Nūr to add the phrase “the four Islamic doctrines” to Article II, noting the people asking for this addition “have flawed understanding of the Islamic sharī’ah”.
Former Muftī of the Republic Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, a representative of the Azhar on the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists seek removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the word ‘...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
The crisis over the drafting of Article II of the Constitution continued after representatives of the salafī camp insisted on the addition of the phrase “legislators shall enact laws based on the sources of the four Islamic madhāhib (doctrines)” as precondition for keeping the phrase “principles of...
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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.