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Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
The minister of
Awqāf, Dr. Hamdī Zaqzuq said that the unification
of the call to prayers will return the
sanctity and spirituality to the call instead of allowing random and noisy
voices. He also tried to allay
public concern about a possible plan to standardize Friday sermons.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article deals with an incident in which a woman wearing a niqāb smashed a number of great works by a fine sculptor after a recent fatwa from the muftī saying that statues are not acceptable from a Muslim point of view.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
The government has supplied 4000
recievers to the
mosques of Greater Cairo as part of a plan to unify the call to prayer, but some suspect a US plan
to unify
the Friday sermons and eventually cancel the dawn prayer.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
The grand muftī of Egypt sheds light on the reason behind the conflicting and bizarre fatwas perplexing people.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Deepening dialogue between the Islamic world and the West.
Reports about consequences of a fatwa prohibiting statues.
Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
Azhar scholars have slammed a court
ruling allowing a
Bahā’ī couple to have their religion identified on official documents.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
The
article reports on the visit the
Israeli ambassador in Cairo made to the leader of the Baha’i community
in Egypt, during which he
allegedly promised to support Baha’i demands for an official recognition of
their religious identity.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The article
deals
with the Alexandria incidents and focuses on the issue of citizenship and the means to promote it, in
order to
avoid the recurrence of sectarian troubles.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
In spite of Egyptian officials’
affable statements on Shi’
ite-related issues, the Islamic Research Institute is still banning the
circulation of Shi’ite
books.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
The recent ruling by the Administrative Judiciary Court recognizing the
Bahā’ī faith in
Egyptian official documents like identity cards, passports or birth certificates
has triggered outcry from
official Muslim religious institutions that vehemently reject the ruling.
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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.