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Date of source: Sunday, November 9, 2003
Egyptian authorities tightened their control over the situation in the northern Upper-Egyptian village of Al-Ayyat following the clashes that took place between Muslims and Copts leaving five persons injured. The local authority managed to end the dispute between the village inhabitants which could...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 11, 2003
A young member of the Brotherhood presented a message to the group´s General Guide in which he asked “When will the real power of the Brotherhood come to light?…Where are the Brotherhood detachments?…When will the Brotherhood cry “Come to Jihad.” The message, which was posted on the...
Date of source: Friday, November 7, 2003
The Muslim Brotherhood group asserted that one of its active members died last Monday as a result of torture at one of the police stations in Giza. Egyptian authorities denied this claim and asserted that the Brotherhood promotes wrong information to defame the government. The General Guide of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 5, 2003
The article is about the reaction of Ahmed Al-Shahawi, author of the book titled “Wasaya fi Eshq Al-Nisaa” [commandments in women´s love], to the Azhar´s decision to ban his book on grounds that it contradicts with the principles of the Sharia. Al-Shahawi attacked the decision fiercely...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 4, 2003
Well-informed Egyptian sources stated that 43 fundamentalists belonging to the banned group of Al-Jihad will appear before a military court in the coming few days. The charges directed to the defenders are related to a plan prepared by the group for attacking American and Israeli facilities among...
Date of source: Monday, November 3, 2003
The Azhar delivered a strong strike to the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and the Book Organization affiliated to it. A few days after the Ministry and the organization gave credit to the book of the poet Ahmed Al-Shahawi titled “Wasaya fi Eshq Al-Nisaa” [Commandments on Loving Women], the Islamic...
Date of source: Sunday, October 26, 2003
In an action that reflects the Muslim Brotherhood’s insistence on maintaining an active presence, in spite of its being excluded from the dialogue the ruling National Party is having with the opposition, the Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood received yesterday at his group’s headquarters the head of...
Date of source: Saturday, October 18, 2003
The article presents the ideas of Dr. Abdel Monem Abu Al-Fotouh, a prominent Brotherhood member, concerning the renewal of the Islamic religious discourse. He states that this discourse is not holy, but simply a human ijtihad, which should be renewed from time to time.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 14, 2003
The Azhar and the Ministry of Endowments started the implementation of a plan to send 37 scholars and preachers to 48 countries during the month of Ramadan to refute wrong ideas about Islam and combat the ideologies of fundamentalist groups.
Date of source: Monday, September 15, 2003
The investigations of the Egyptian State Security Prosecution in relation to the case of 25 fundamentalists, showed that a former Brotherhood leader played an important role in establishing a group planning to hit US and Western assets in Arab and Islamic countries.
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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.