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14. It is unreasonable that the United States demands that the system of education at the Azhar University be changed
Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2002 to Friday, January 11, 2002
The US accused the Azhar University of teaching students by using a strict approach that leads to extremist thinking and to the establishment of terrorism. That was why the US asked the Islamic countries to reconsider the approaches they take in religious education. The article gives the comment of...
11. Conference at the Azhar attacks Saudi Arabia
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
The author discusses a conference hosted by the Azhar on calls by Sufis to internationalize Muslim sanctities and bring an end to the Wahābīs’ control over them.
5. Denmark to host Muslim-Christian dialogue to stand up for the Prophet Muhammad
Date of source: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
In response to the offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, first published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005, moderate Egyptian preacher, ‘Amr Khālid has revealed an initiative to engage in dialogue with Danish youth and intellectuals in a bid to find common...
15. Scholar protests Muslim academy’s thumbs-up to Pepsi
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2006
A fuss has been recently made over the Islamic Research Academy’s decision to approve Pepsi, which was protested by a Muslim scholar.
34. Religious education needs urgent surgery
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The article discusses the need for changes in the Arab educational curricula. It calls for focusing on this objective and considers Western interference in this respect just a stone thrown into stagnant water.
61. Islam has nothing to do with female circumcision
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Many Azhar scholars have rejected female circumcision and even criminalized it based on the notion that the practice has never been a duty or obligation in Islam and there are no texts in the Qur’ān or sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] that encourage it.
6. Controversial fatwas
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2006
The author of the article cites a few examples of the fatwas that have resulted in controversy amongst Muslims.
54. Self-criticism, inter-Arab dialogue are ways to end clash of civilizations, says director of Swedish institute in Alexandria
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
The Arabs are unaware of the importance of forming one bloc. Their deteriorating economic conditions have formed obstacles that impeded their self-confidence and consequently this resulted in a feeling of inability to stand up to the others.
1. Editorial
Date of source: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
AWR’s input in discussions about Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt. Dealing with different interpretations and variations in religions. Article stating that words of the Qur’ān cannot be taken out of their historical context.
49. Reviewing Yustina Saleh’s “Law, the Rule of Law, and Religious Minorities in Egypt,” MERIA Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, art. 7, December 2004
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
A critique of the controversial work of researcher Yustina Saleh on the 2nd article of the Egyptian constitution, which states that sharī‘a is the main source of law.

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