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Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The author tackles the criticism made by
Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī against the
Azhar for not being active in the cartoon crisis.
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2006
The 18th conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs opened Thursday with a keynote speech by Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Nazīf on behalf of President Mubārak, highlighting the role of Muslim scholars and intellectuals in the renaissance of the Muslim nation.
Date of source: Friday, November 2, 2001
An the Islamic-Christian meeting was held in the grounds of the Islamic dialogue committee aimed exclusively at discussing current events, from September 11 up until the American attacks on Afghanistan. The chief of the international council for bringing the Islamic denominations together said that...
Date of source: Saturday, November 3, 2001 to Friday, November 9, 2001
The article is the text of a statement by the Islamic Research Institute about Islam’s attitude towards terrorism. The statement points out that dialogue and understanding among nations and countries is the only way to keep the variation of cultures and civilizations, which is a law of God....
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued a report titled "Egypt’s Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America," The title implies that many if not most Azhar scholars declared war on America. Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi stressed that this was certainly not true. He said that the report...
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
The international Assembly for civilization dialogue in Saudi-Arabia organized a
conference on inter-religious dialogue in Cairo. Muslim and Christian leaders who attended the conference disagreed
about the use of the term "heavenly religions." A few Christian representatives insisted on...
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2001 to Friday, November 2, 2001
A lawyer raised a case to prevent the film "To make God love you"
from being shown because the word "God" in the title was associated with a picture of a young man and two girls in
an improper position. He tried to obtain a fatwa to support his legal case, by sending a complaint with the case...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 17, 2001
In cooperation with the Egyptian Committee for Consolidating National Unity, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies held a seminar about the new international developments and their impact on Egyptian national unity. All participants condemned the terrorist attacks against America and...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 16, 2001
Interview about the opinion of the Coptic Orthodox Church on the attack on September 11 and the attack on Afghanistan. The bishop is criticizing Egyptian media and fears escalation.
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
A demonstration against attacking Afghanistan erupted in the Azhar mosque after Friday prayers. The demonstrators were led by some parliamentary members and members of Islamic and leftist parties. They were shouting against attacking innocent Afghan people and asked for the same way of fighting...
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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.