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Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, said it supports having both articles intact. The salafīs also refuse Article III because they want to change the phrase "sovereignty is by the people" to read "sovereigny is by Allah".
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Controversy marred the constituent assembly’s meeting on Tuesday (July 24) after a decision to postpone the election of five substitutes for five main members of the panel who withdrew amidst the Azhar’s insistence on keeping Article II as stated in the 1971 constitution unchanged. [Muhammad Abū...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The committee on registration of voters to elect a new pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in succession of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March, were placed on notice boards in the Saint Mark Cathedral headquarters in both Cairo’s al-‘Abbāssīyah district and Alexandria. [Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī, al...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
\What shall Egyptians or Islam benefit from confining their sources of legislation to only one source, that is the sharī’ah? All sources possible of legislation should remain open so that Egyptians may refer to in order to meet their practical needs. [Ahmad ‘Abd al-Mu’tī Hijāzī, al-Ahrām, July 25,...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Leaders of the Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches as well as Coptic activists severely criticized calls by salafists to implement the hudūd (a system of penalties for offences and crimes in Islam) and to have it stated in the new constitution.
The leaders termed the statements as “...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Controversy marred the constituent assembly’s meeting on Tuesday (July 24) after a decision to postpone the election of five substitutes for five main members of the panel who withdrew amidst the Azhar’s insistence on keeping Article II as stated in the 1971 constitution unchanged. [Muhammad Abū...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, said it supports having both articles intact. The salafīs also refuse Article III because they want to change the phrase "sovereignty is by the people" to read "sovereigny is by Allah".
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the...
Date of source: Friday, July 27, 2012
A well-informed Coptic source said the representation of Copts in the new government being formed will not be changed, adding there are only two Coptic ministers in the new cabinet lineup, Munīr Fakhrī 'Abd al-Nūr, the minister of tourism, and Nādyāh Zakhārī, the minister of scientific research....
Date of source: Friday, July 27, 2012
A well-informed Coptic source said the representation of Copts in the new government being formed will not be changed, adding there are only two Coptic ministers in the new cabinet lineup, Munīr Fakhrī 'Abd al-Nūr, the minister of tourism, and Nādyāh Zakhārī, the minister of scientific research....
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Coptic and Sufi activists who attended the conference, titled “One Voice for All of Egypt...A Message to All Officials,” lashed out at statements by Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, the deputy chairman of the Salafī Da’wah (Call) and a member of the constitution-drafting committee, in which he rejected the...
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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.