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Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2006
Scholars from the Azhar rejected the opinion of the
muftī that terrorists should be physically
liquidated and called for confronting the problem of
terrorism through an enlightened Muslim way of thinking.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Hamada Husayn reviews Dr. Nawāl al-
Sa‘dāwī statements in
an interview with al-‘Arabīya
Channel, in which she talked about the idea of
giving a child the surname of his/her mother.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
Dr. al-Mat‘anī, a
scholar of the Azhar,
the top Sunni organization in the Muslim world, has criticized
Dā‘īya
cAmr Khālid who went to Denmark for dialogue with Danish
figures to explain the genuine
traditions of Islam, terming the initiative "hasty and random."
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006
Azhar scholars have slammed
an Administrative Judicial Court ruling acknowledging the Bahā’ī faith
as an official religion in
Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, April 14, 2006
A few days ago, the director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, claimed that the Prophet Muhammad was given another name at birth by his mother, Āmina, and that this name will remain unknown to the world.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued a report titled "Egypt’s Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America," The title implies that many if not most Azhar scholars declared war on America. Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi stressed that this was certainly not true. He said that the report...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The article reviews a split inside the Azhar University over the decision to grant Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales an honorary doctorate from the largest Sunni institution in the Muslim world.
Date of source: Thursday, November 13, 2003
The article reports about the developments of the crisis between MPs affiliated to the Brotherhood and the Minister of Culture over the book “Commandments on Loving Women” by Ahmed Al-Shahawi which was published by the Book Organization and recommended to be banned by the Islamic Research Institute...
Date of source: Thursday, October 2, 2003
Seven religious scholars refute the allegations of the Zionist German writer Christian Luxenburg, who claims that the Qur´an was written in the Aramaic language which prevailed at that time and not Arabic. Further, they argue against his theory that the Qur´an was not a revealed text but...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2003
The article presents the different views of Azhar scholars on the fatwa of friend marriage that was issued by sheikh Abdel Magid Al-Zindani.
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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.