Date of source: Thursday, June 23, 2005
Within the next few days, a delegation of Catholic men of religion will visit the Holy Land in Palestine. This is their second journey since Easter. This journey created resentment among Orthodox leaders who consider this action a violation to the majority, as Pope Shenouda III announced that...
Date of source: Thursday, December 1, 2005
In an interview, Shaykh Hasan al-Shinnāwī, the grand chief of the Egyptian Sufis elaborates on the number of Sufis in Egypt and their relation to the government and the American embassy, after the U.S. ambassador attended the al-Sayyid al-Badawī moulid.
Date of source: Thursday, November 17, 2005
Sufis have recently begun to emerge on the Egyptian political scene. Immediately before the presidential elections, the chief shaykh of Sufism in Egypt, Shaykh Hasan al-Shinnāwī issued a statement in which he declared his full support for the incumbent president, Muhammad Husnī Mubārak. Observers...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
An Azhar professor sent the sheikh of the Azhar a report about the encyclopedia of the World of Religions, noting the mistakes and dangers of this encyclopedia that contains a number of errors that offend the Islamic religion. The encyclopedia did not list any names of authors, the publisher or...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 2004
After we brought up the issue of stopping building Azharite institutes according a decision by the Council of Governors, we are following up on this issue.
The decision triggered many reactions on all levels from people who reject the decision and doubt its motives by linking it to the so-called...
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2004
Professor of
Islamic Studies at the Islamic Research Institute Mustafa al-Shak‘a said orientalism began in the
early 15th century to study Muslim affairs and their weaknesses. Ensuing from this, the
missionary war started with what we call the Christianization of Muslims that came to a peak...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 20, 2001
Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi said that the Islamic telephone line service was halal and that the Sheikh of Azhar said that the service was a good and permissible activity. He added that Amr Khalid was a phenomenon worth studying and that those who criticize him could not criticize a belly dancer.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
All the Christian denominations believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as being the price He paid for the salvation of all those who believe in Him. Still, they differ concerning the way this salvation takes place.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Professor Abdel-Sabour Shahin and Dr. Omar Abdel-Kafi explained everybody in Heaven will be thirty-three years old, the age of Christ when he ascended to Heaven [according to the Muslim version of the story]. They will also be as big as Adam, as good-looking as Joseph, and as well spoken as...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
Al-Midan published Haider’s interview with the BBC in which he confirmed that the novel has many parts that support Islam. He thinks that what was mentioned by Al-Shaab was to achieve political gains.