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Date of source: Saturday, May 24, 2003 to Friday, May 30, 2003
The visit which the Minister of Education and some officials in his ministry paid to the US gives more space to what has been said about the US asking Arab and Islamic countries to change their pre-university educational curricula as it allegedly promote terrorism and extremism. The article...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 30, 2005
A group of professors from the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University, are currently discussing the possibility of establishing a department of Coptic Studies in the faculty.
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 2004 to Friday, December 3, 2004
US biologist Dean H. Hamer tries in his book The God Gene to focus on the issue of how faith is linked to our genes as he alleges that there are some genes responsible for man’s interest in spiritual aspects.
Date of source: Saturday, January 26, 2002 to Friday, February 1, 2002
The governor of Assiut commented on the current situation of religious extremism in the governorate after September11. He said that after the September events, the fugitive terrorists in Assiut are always in a state of fear and worry. He believed that since the basis of all extremist groups is the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 12, 2002 to Friday, January 18, 2002
In this article, the Egyptian Minister of Education comments on the fear that the United States will start interfering in the education system of Arab countries like Egypt because they embrace Islam as the national religion. He said that no person, government or organization has the right to...
Date of source: Sunday, December 24, 2006 to Saturday, December 30, 2006
‘Abd al-Rāziq, professor of sharī‘a and theology at the Dār al-‘Uloum says that his study of the names of Allāh has taken two years of immense research of over 50 encyclopedias comprising 20,000 books. He elaborated that many of the names of Allāh are not among the 99 attributes of God, known to...
Date of source: Saturday, December 17, 2005 to Friday, December 23, 2005
The Khutuwāt al-Mustaqbal al-Islāmīya School [The Islamic Future Steps School] has reportedly organized a contest searching out the 99 names of God in the Qur’ān and the genuine sunna, arguing that compiling God’s names is an interpretive work, and can thus be subject to study and analysis.
Date of source: Saturday, May 21, 2005
The involvement of mosques in politics is not only a mistake but a sin as well, because the congregational Muslim prayer unites all Muslims but political ideas disunite as each one has his own vision.
Date of source: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Articles by seven journalists showing different aspects of a plan to halt Egypt’s development. First there are the tapes of preachers designed to influence all sectors of society. The Islamic shari’a was then used to try and facilitate building on agricultural land, thus harming the economy. The...
Date of source: Saturday, March 23, 2002
The Muslim Brotherhood’s representative in the parliament submitted a suggestion saying that the office of dean of faculty should be chosen by elections rather than by appointment. This is an attempt on the part of the Brotherhood to control the leading positions in universities. Many university...
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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.