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Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 1999
A disciplinary council in the Azhar University headed by Dr. Taha Abu Krasha, the Vice-President of the Azhar University decided to dismiss Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli, a professor of rhetoric and [literary] criticism at the Faculty of Arabic Language in the Azhar University, for his objection of the...
Date of source: Friday, December 10, 1999
Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin has two court cases against him due to the publication of his book ’My Father Adam... The Story Of Creation Between Myth And Truth’, claiming in it that Adam is not the father of humankind, but the father of reasoning man, and that he was born of a father and a mother. Those...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
A man wrote a letter to the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, claiming that he is the Mahdi who, in Islam, comes at the end of times. The article further explains the concept of this self-acclaimed Mahdi on the end of times and the response of well-known Muslim scholars.
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
Subtitle: In Western media, every Muslim is a terrorist or another Khomeini At the Al-Albeit University, north of the Jordanian capital Amman, scholars from 90 Islamic and Arabic universities gathered to discuss the challenges facing the Islamic world. One of the most important challenges discussed...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
The Archbishop of Canterbury will meet Pope Shenouda III and the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi. He will give a lecture at the Azhar on Islamic and Christian tolerance.
Date of source: Thursday, November 18, 1999
Al Azhar University, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institution of learning, has appealed a court decision that it must re-admit a transsexual belly-dancer to its women’s faculty.
Date of source: Saturday, November 20, 1999
Sheikh Yassin criticized the magazine for an article they wrote approximately half a year ago about him. He says some fundamentalists and extremists don’t perform the basic elements of Islam. He also writes "I find it strange to be accused of accusing Muslims of apostasy and to be described as the...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Dr. Su’ad Saleh, professor at the women’s college for Islamic studies at the Azhar University said that she is the mufti of women and that Islam does not limit the work of the mufti to men only.
Date of source: Sunday, November 21, 1999
An Egyptian Gazette comment on the interview of al-Musawwar with sheikh Tantawi.
The Gazette praises Tantawi for his cautious attitude.
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 1999
Interview with Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Sheikh of the Azhar, about a range of actual subjects in Egypt, including regulating pilgrimage, his opposition to the embargo of Iraq, religious censorship, the new magazine of the Azhar, a fatwa on taking loans, presenting religious personalities...
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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.