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Date of source: Friday, September 12, 2003
The article is an interview with the Egyptian Minister of Endowments about the religious discourse in Egypt. He denied what has been reported lately about the intention of the ministry to unify the Friday sermons. He stressed that renewing the religious discourse is needed and that the ministry has...
Date of source: Monday, August 18, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar called on the youth, who misunderstand Islam and think that extremism is something good, to reconsider their ideologies through dialogue with Muslim scholars
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Many Muslim thinkers and scholars have occupied themselves with the issue of democracy in Western civilization and its comparison with the Islamic system of shura [consultation], especially after the proposed U.S. reform project known as the Greater Middle East was introduced. This study examines...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
Dr. Farid Haidar Soliman, the Grand Mufti of Russia and the Northern Pole Zone, called upon Arab and Muslim countries that are members of the Islamic Conference Organization to support the Russian request for joining the organization. He emphasized that this joining will add to the power of Arab...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2004
The fate of the book
“Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil asr Al-hadith”[The responsibility of the failure of
the Islamic State in the contemporary era] written by Gamal Al-Banna is still unclear. Al-Banna
confirmed that the Islamic Research Institute has banned his book while the Azhar...
Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2004
The article presents the opinion of two Islamic scholars and
preachers, Dr. Abdel Hakam Al-Sa’idi and Dr. Abdel Sabour Shaheen, concerning the idea of the
Islamic religious discourse. They explain that any deficiency the Islamic religious discourse
suffers from is because of religious scholars...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Muhammad Ra’fat
‘Uthmān, the rapporteur of the fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] Research Committee at the Islamic Research Academy, issued a
fatwa rendering halāl [permissible] the use of genetic engineering technologies to determine the sex of the fetus.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
For a long time, Israel and the United States have been trying to attack Islam to the extent that Israel is officially requesting that the US pressurize Muslims to stop Jews from converting to Islam. However, a Hebrew newspaper published that Islam is still widely spreading in an astonishing way.
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001
The deputy of the Azhar stressed the importance of activating the dialogue among civilizations and cultures in order to achieve the necessary levels of understanding. He said that the interaction of civilizations is a human necessity and that establishing a new and active mechanism is a must for...
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
American authorities imposed restrictive traveling procedures on the do’a [preachers] the Azhar sends to the USA to preach and spread Islam by joining the Islamic centres there.
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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.