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Date of source: Tuesday, September 7, 2004
The Azhar Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Al-Tantawi denies all the rumors and the accusations that have been targeting the Azhar and trying to stain its reputation. He denied that America or any other foreign power has anything to do with the domestic issue of modernizing and developing its educational...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Some trends have intentionally sought to stoke the fire by depicting the Azhar as an
institution that aims to impede creativity and stifle freedom and artists. Real artists and
intellectuals are not those who are after fame, power and money to the detriment of principles
and values. There are...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
Although the visit of the American Commission on International Religious Freedom to Egypt ended, the issue of the visit and the meetings the members of the commission had with religious and public figures are still a hot issue in the Egyptian press. The article gives a list of the articles that...
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: Tuesday, July 4, 2000
Sheikh Ali Abu Al-Hassan, the head of the Fatwa Committee in the Azhar, confirmed that the Azhar refuses the idea of unifying religions because it does not go along with the principles and the teachings of Islam. Islam acknowledges only one religion and one creed that is the creed of unity [...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
Aqidati runs a story saying that the Islamic Research Institute will issue a report on the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed." The report says that the novel has about 27 mistakes.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2000
The Supreme State Security Prosecution is conducting investigations with Eid Wardani, the writer of the book "The story of the creation from the beginning to the throne". The writer is accused of including insults against the Islamic scholars in his book.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 18, 2000
The Department for the Supervision of Literary Work confiscated the book entitled "The story of the creation from the throne to the land", from all the libraries of the country and collected it from the market because the author had forged the permit of the Azhar.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2000
An administrative court in Cairo issued a verdict that cancels the municipal decree dissolving the Azhar Scholars’ Front, and fined the Governor of Cairo and the Al-Azhar deputy 200 EgP each. The new success of the Front, which was created in 1946 and modified many times, will strengthen their...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 28, 2000
Sub-titles: Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin: An international Islamic conference is needed to study how to choose the Sheikh Al-Azhar. Dr. Abdel-Azim Al-Matani: We must return to the old system: The Sheikh of the Azhar should be selected from the group of the Grand Ulama. Dr. Mohammed Ra’fat Othman: 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.