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Date of source: Monday, July 15, 2002
A member of parliament asked for a modification of the articles about committing adultery in the current Penal Law. He asked for an equal punishment of husbands and wifes and those who killed their unfaithful partners after they had been betrayed [the concept of honor killing]. But the Mufti...
Date of source: Sunday, June 2, 2002
The American Ambassador to Cairo asked the Mufti to issue a fatwa forbidding martyrdom operations as he considers them to be terrorism. The Mufti said that these issues were related to Islam and no one could tell Muslims what to say concerning their religious issues. He said that these operations...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002 to Friday, March 22, 2002
In this article, Egypt´s new Mufti speaks about the duties of Dar El-Ifta´ and the issues on which it can and cannot give fatwas. He said that it is important for specialists beside religious scholars to be consulted on issues such as genetic engineering, banking and medicine. This makes the fatwas...
Date of source: Saturday, February 25, 2006
Recent research findings on the increasing rate of melanoma among girls have raised controversy among Egyptian dermatologists and Muslim scholars, after claims by some Muslim preachers linked skin cancer to revealing clothes worn by young girls.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
The decision of the muftī of the republic, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a to allow the controversial Wahabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad, by Natana J. De Long-Bas into Egypt has provoked dispute among members of the Islamic Research Academy, who had previously announced their disapproval of the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
He supports the freedom of religion as an assertion to Allāh’s instructions: a man needs not register his conviction, adding that this principle represented the spirit of Islam.
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.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Dr. Nabīl Luqā Bibāwī’s response to the questions posed by AWR concerning Yustina Saleh’s article on the second article of the Egyptian constitution.
Date of source: Monday, October 24, 2005
Out of the blue, the Fatwa Committee of the Azhar al-Sharīf in Alexandria has issued a fatwa allowing parliamentary candidates to offer gifts to their constituents.
Date of source: Thursday, October 20, 2005
Satellite TV channels are now playing a major role in increasing public awareness and disseminating Islamic culture.
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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.