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Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Dr. Hammīd Abu Tālib, member of the Islamic Research Institute, stated that Dr. ‘Umar Nāssif, secretary of the Islamic Council for Preaching and Relief, decided to suspend the activities of the branch of the World Union for Muslim Scholars that is headed by Dr. Yusuf al- Qaradāwī inside Egypt
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Scholars and legal experts warned from attacking citizens and using violence under the pretext of promoting virtue and preventing vice.
Dr. 'Afāf al-Najār, former Dean of Faculty of Islamic Studies, said, that if these matters were left to the general public then Egypt would soon turn into a jungle...
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2007
Swedish cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad arouse wide protests in the Muslim countries. Muslims worldwide protest the cartoons, the newspaper, and the artist. Some Muslim countries prepared official complaints to the Swedish government and the Egyptian press observed Muslim scholars’ opinions...
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2007
The article presents the opinions of Islamic scholars on Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah ’s Fatwá that allows Muslims to convert.
Date of source: Monday, March 12, 2007
Within days of declaring a visit of Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī to the Vatican on an invitation from the Roman pope, opposing voices have risen as the pope’s famous lecture on Islām is fresh in the minds of many.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 21, 2007
In the aftermath of the Azhar militias’ incident, a pressing question was raised: What has education in the Azhar come to? This article attempts to answer this question.
Date of source: Thursday, November 30, 2006
Scholars have rejected calls to amend the second article of the constitution which stipulates that the principles of Sharī‘ah are the mainstay of Egyptian legislation as they believe it would transform Egypt into a secular state.
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2006
The author of the article, Arwá Hasan, discusses the different reactions to the proposal put forward by the National Council on Human Rights concerning the removal of religious data from official documents such as identity cards.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The article deals
with a visit by a US delegation to the Faculty of
Sharī‘a and Law, the Azhar
University, to discuss Muslim-West relations and get acquainted
with the true image of Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
An attempt at dialogue between students at the Azhar and a
U.S.
delegation has ended in mutual accusations, with the Americans accusing the Azhar of increasing hatred
towards the
West and Azharites accusing the West of a war on Islam.
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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.