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Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
Preachers: clinging to power has nothing to do with religion and is a crime against Islam
A number of preachers have made a statement and affirmed that desperately clinging to power, provoking sedition and propagating chaos, is not Islamic. They say that trying to justify bloodshed and calling for...
Date of source: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Pope Shenouda receives Shaykh al-Jafarī and 50 monks from the Monastery of Saint Macarius who denied the false news that they agreed to support one of them to succeed the pope.
Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2002
Al-Wafd and al-Usboa papers are positive toward the Yemeni Shaykh al-Habib al-Gafri and against the decision to deport him. Sout al-Ummah, however, believes that better than deporting him would be to disclose his deception. al-Musawwar interviews him on the reasons behind his deportation and his...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Rose Al-Yūssif and al-Musawar provided a background of Shaykh al-Ḥabīb al-Jifrī and how he started preaching in Egypt. The reasons for his deportation were unclear, but he claimed he was slandered and defamed. al-Musawar added an interview with him about the ḥijāb. Sawt al-'Umma attributes his...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Islamic web sites have succeeded lately in attracting a great percentage of Egyptian youth. They consider such sites a substitute for the new preachers. Many of the Egyptian youth have a strong connection with them. Thus when these preachers left Egypt, they caused psychical disorders for the youth...
Date of source: Monday, August 4, 2003
The author comments on the attitudes of certain sheikhs of the Azhar towards some modern Islamic preachers. He gives examples to illustrate that some sheikhs arranged schemes for preachers in an effort to get rid of them.
Date of source: Saturday, May 3, 2003
The writer criticizes and analyzes the programs of an Islamic channel, “Iqra”. He considers that it has a bad influence upon people. He supports his idea through using many and various examples [He builds his argument depending on his own point of view without taking the opinion of its audience in...
Date of source: Saturday, August 3, 2002
The author believes that sheikhs Amr Khaled and Al-Habib Al-Gafri are among the best young Muslim preachers. He finds it strange that the two sheikhs are criticized because they are said to be behind the retirement of many Egyptian actresses and because they preach people about the life stories of...
Date of source: Monday, May 13, 2002
When a well-known da´iya [preacher] and a repented artist meet, this means that they are doing business. There must be an agreement between them to present satellite programs or record a tape containing some preaching by the da´iya, as a way of making money.
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002 to Friday, January 25, 2002
The Yemeni Al-Habib Ali is the last sheikh of artists and businessmen in Egypt. He directs himself to prominent persons in Egypt and other Arab countries and not to the ordinary people. He is the son of the ex-prime minister of South Yemen and he is living in Egypt as a political refugee. The great...
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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.