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Date of source: Monday, April 26, 2004
The Minister of Justice issued the confidential decree to give the sheikhs of the Azhar the right to “judicial seizure.” That means they will be able to attack any publishing house and search it for banned books at any moment.
Whoever has “judicial seizure” authority has the right to break into a...
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2001
The author agrees with the opinion given in respect of attacking Israeli civilians by the Sheikh of the Azhar rather than with the opinions given by the Mufti of Egypt. He agrees with the Sheikh of the Azhar because he gave his opinion a political dimension and took into consideration the...
Date of source: Thursday, December 6, 2001
Dr. Christiaan van Nispen s.j., professor in Islam and philosophy at the Catholic seminary in Maadi, Cairo, and a member of the Editorial Board of the RNSAW, concludes with the impression that the US Copts Association practice exactly what they accuse those Muslim intellectuals to do, that is to...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
The Azhar Dialogue Committee’s activities are exclusively visiting Rome. The committee is not trying to change the unfair concept of Islam and Muslims that is firmly established in the minds of Westerners. The Dialogue Committee became the subject of many questions and doubts. The dialogue between...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Marriage between a Muslim man and a Christian or a Jewish woman is allowed in Islamic countries while the opposite is not allowed. The author argues that if Muslims consider Christians people of the book, a Christian man should have the right to marry a Muslim woman. However, if they are...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Marriage between a Muslim man and a Christian or a Jewish woman is allowed in Islamic countries while the opposite is not allowed. The author argues that if Muslims consider Christians people of the book, a Christian man should have the right to marry a Muslim woman. However, if they are...
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2000
The Mufti of Egypt issued an official fatwa that allows the marriage of Al-Missyar*. By doing so, he contradicted the fatwa of Sheikh Gad Al-Haq Ali Gad Al-Haq, the late Sheikh of the Azhar, in which he said that Al-Missyar marriage is illegal and that it is like the mota’a marriage [for joy,...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 26, 2000
In his interview with Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, Khaled Hamza, asked him about his opinion concerning the relationships between the Muslim and Coptic communities in Egypt as well as about his opinion on both Pope Shenouda and the Sheikh of Al-Azhar. In addition to this he was asked to comment on the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2000
After viewing the document, the Azhar’s committee for dialogue officially requested the Pontifical council for inter-religious dialogue to make an addition to the agenda of the joint committee of the Azhar and the Vatican. The additional item is "discussion of our request for fair and objective...
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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.