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Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2011
Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, the grand muftī, stressed that any attack on churches is forbidden under Islamic Sharī'ah. He added that attacking Christian Egyptians is a step away from citizenship pointing to the fact that Christians have a right to live in Egypt peacefully with Muslims.
When asked about...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The Egyptian religious establishment adhered to its position of favoring stability and opposing the spread of chaos and sabotage. It has also supported the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and the five communiqués it has issued since it took over following the stepping down of President Ḥusnī...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
Editor: AWR received this text before President Mubarak announced he would step down. Nothing in the media indicated that this could happen tonight, yet it did.
Ever since the demonstrations began on January 25, men of religion have been stressing the importance of them not being transformed from...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Azhar Grand Imām Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib says that apostatizing others is a threat to society, according to Rose al-Yūsuf.
“Takfir and rash accusations of iniquity are the most important phenomenon threatening Islamic society,” said al-Tayyib at a meeting for the Sixth World Forum of Azhar graduates...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
The extreme speech of Salafīs is the source of much strife between Egyptians, according to the authors of this article in October magazine. The latest example of this is the Salafī call for a boycott of stores owned by Coptic Christians.
Grand Muftī 'Ali Jum'ah said that Salafīyah is not a...
Date of source: Thursday, January 20, 2011
The Muftī of Egypt has denounced the "chaos" of the proliferation of fatwás on satellite TV channels, Al-Ahrār reports.
Speaking at a lecture in Khartoum, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah warned against fatwás that "emanate from whims or the influence of circumstances and customs that violate the principles and...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
The following is a listing of articles that fit the AWR Selection Criteria, but have not been translated:
Headline: Wafd Party Enters Presidential Elections with Coptic Candidate Source: Al-Jumhūrīyah Page: 1 Author: Safwat ‘Umrān Keywords: Wafd political party, 2011 presidential elections...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Egyptian and Israeli media trade accusations, Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī tells the Vatican Pope to "leave us alone," and investigators continue their hunt for evidence in this latest roundup of Egyptian newspaper coverage of the New Year's Day church attack in Alexandria...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
This article reports that Coptic Christmas celebrations on January 7 went about as usual, with no reports of any trouble. The holiday comes a week after a deadly church bombing in Alexandria.
Many Muslims also attended Christmas mass out of solidarity with their Christian countrymen.
In the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2011
In mosques across the region on Friday, Muslim clerics preached tolerance and called for Muslim/Christian unity against acts of terrorism.
"Such crimes, which do not differentiate between Muslim and Christian or between a man and a woman, were rejected by the Prophet," says Egypt's Grand Muftī ‘Alī...
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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.