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Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Sixty-nine Islamic countries and six Islamic organizations will take part in the 11th Islamic conference scheduled to open on Tuesday [June 22, 1999]. Addressing a news conference at the headquarters of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Hamdi Zaqzouq, minister of Al-Awqaf (religious...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
A series of educational books recently published by the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development have raised some eyebrows and triggered a crisis in the Ministry of Education, among religious scholars and more recently [have] drawn angry protests from the People’s Assembly.
Date of source: Saturday, June 5, 1999 to Friday, June 11, 1999
Rose el-Yousef published the text of an advertisement in the Washington Times of May 25 claiming Christian girls in Egypt are kidnapped, raped and forced to convert to Islam. They conclude the translation with one paragraph saying the claims are not true.
Date of source: Friday, June 4, 1999
[Note: The same news was published in all Egyptian newspapers of that day.]
On the morning of June 3, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak received the Grand Imam Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi the Sheikh Al-Azhar, and 19 prominent muslim clerics at the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis yesterday morning...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
The unprecedented rise in the number of Urfi marriages among university students has prompted the Islamic Research Academy to condemn the practice as illegitimate. However, if all Urfi marriages become illegal (haram) as stipulated in the statement made by the IRA, this could block one of the most...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 25, 1999
The Grand Sheikh recently clashed with those more politically minded when he refused to lead a prayer for the martyrs of Kosovo. Explaining that it was unlawful according the Muslim Shari’a, he suggested that those who wished to pray for martyrs do so at home or at mosques affiliated to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 18, 1999
Clearly expressing his views about three Muslim sects, a sheikh from Al-Azhar is accused of speaking irreverently of them. Angry reactions from the followers of these sects range from calling for apologies to the taking his life ’as the only decent reply to his disrespect of their beliefs.
Date of source: Monday, May 17, 1999
Through their special coordination offices, 450 Islamic societies extended their congratulations to the president of Al-Azhar Permanent Committee for Dialogue between the Heavenly Religions, Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zafzaf, for the decisive and frank position expressed by the "Al-Azhar"-Vatican Committee...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
The polemic continues as regards the issue of the Prayer for the Absentee. According to Sayyed Tantawi, the Sheikh Al-Azhar, there is no need for a prayer for the martyrs who are absent. However this issue has provoked many of the Sheikh’s opponents who are accusing him of mixing politics with...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999
Dr. Mahmoud argues that there cannot be any form of intercession on the Day of Judgment because if it happened it would be a form of injustice and favoritism, and this is impossible taking into consideration the justice of Allah. The Azhar scholars have criticized him for this view.
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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.