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Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2000 to Friday, May 5, 2000
As there was no alternative, people went to the alleged Da’iya sessions. Some of them had great difficulty in consulting the right people of the Azhar over their religious concerns, because these sheikhs from the Azhar set the religion behind the stars as if they were trying to avoid problems.
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
A year ago, during the general assembly of the radio and television union, Safwat Al-Sherif, Minister of Information announced the establishment of Al-Tanweer channel. A few months ago, the final form was admitted. In about a month, the experimental broadcasting of the channel will start. Religious...
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2000
Prime Minister Dr. Atef Ebeid visited Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the missionary province of St. Mark yesterday in the Abbassiyya Cathedral to extend Christmas greetings to him. Dr. Sayyed Tantawi the Sheikh Al-Azhar and other religious and government dignitaries also...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2000
A large number of the Azhar scholars have expressed their disapproval of the visit of Dr. Sayyed Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar and Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashim, [Azhar] University president to occupied Palestine with an Israeli visa.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Kholi, professor in the Faculty of Arabic Language, has filed an appeal to the State’s Council [the court of appeal that looks into cases in which the government is a party] against the decision of the Punishment Board at Al-Azhar University to dismiss him from the staff at the...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Kholi, long-serving Professor of Elocution at the Arabic Language Faculty, University of Al-Azhar was recently fired from the staff of the University. In January 1998 he wrote two articles in Al-Shaab newspaper criticizing the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi,...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
A man wrote a letter to the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, claiming that he is the Mahdi who, in Islam, comes at the end of times. The article further explains the concept of this self-acclaimed Mahdi on the end of times and the response of well-known Muslim scholars.
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
Subtitle: In Western media, every Muslim is a terrorist or another Khomeini At the Al-Albeit University, north of the Jordanian capital Amman, scholars from 90 Islamic and Arabic universities gathered to discuss the challenges facing the Islamic world. One of the most important challenges discussed...
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
After being booted out of Al Azhar Medical College 11 years ago due to undergoing a sex change operation, Sally Mohammed Abdallah might be returning to classes there despite the prestigious university’s condemnation of her operation.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 20, 1999
An article about a new weekly publication, Al-Shorouq: Sawt Al-Azhar (Sunrise: the Voice of Al-Azhar), an Islamic newspaper which deals with life and religious affairs moderately, without extremism. The newspaper is the brainchild of Sheikh Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and...
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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.