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Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church, in the statement, called on SCAF Chairman Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī to approve a constitution panel that is representative of all Egyptians without discrimination among the citizens of Egypt on religious or ethnic basis. [Rajab Ramadān, Muhammad Abū al-‘...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Alexandria Millī Council sent a statement on Friday (March 30) to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in which it condemned the mechanisms used to form a constitution-drafting assembly.
The Council stressed equality among all Egyptians in rights and duties regardless of religious...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Azhar apologized for not participating in the constituent assembly and expressed reservations over its “poor” representation in the panel after it decided to withdraw Wāsil from it.
The decision was taken during a meeting of the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy under Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The scholars said that religious groups “have to return to their barracks”!
“It was a vital matter that the Azhar take its representative out of the constitution assembly simply because it is not proper for the stature of the Azhar to participate in a panel marked by domination not partnership and...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Furthermore, the Azhar officially announced quitting the constituent assembly due to low representation.
Members of the Islamic Research Academy, during a meeting at the Azhar headquarters led by Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, stated that the Azhar’s role was crucially marginalized in a country...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Furthermore, the Azhar officially announced quitting the constituent assembly due to low representation.
Members of the Islamic Research Academy, during a meeting at the Azhar headquarters led by Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, stated that the Azhar’s role was crucially marginalized in a country...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Furthermore, the Azhar officially announced quitting the constituent assembly due to low representation.
Members of the Islamic Research Academy, during a meeting at the Azhar headquarters led by Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, stated that the Azhar’s role was crucially marginalized in a country...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Furthermore, the Azhar officially announced quitting the constituent assembly due to low representation.
Members of the Islamic Research Academy, during a meeting at the Azhar headquarters led by Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, stated that the Azhar’s role was crucially marginalized in a country...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Meanwhile, the Millī Council of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic endowments association demanded that the constituent-drafting panel the be restructured in a way to make it representative of all groups within the society.[Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, March 30, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic...
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2013
The Azhar objected to Iran’s release of a film portraying the Prophet Muhammad, stressing that portraying Allah’s Prophets is unlawful. Shaykh ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Bāqī, Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy, said that religious scholars in Iran need to strictly cease the release of this film...
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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.