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Date of source: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
The Mufti believes that Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s broke the boundaries of good manners and morals and that her opinion concerning transplantation of sexual organs leads to the undesirable mixing of lineage. He stressed that the hijab [hair cover] is clothing in accordance with the Qur’an and the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Dr. Adel Sabour Shahin said that Nawal Al-Sa’adawi was a heretic and a communist who does not believe in God. Dr. Suade Salah, the former dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, said that her opinions are considered a deviation from religion as she denied one of the main essentials in Islam, that...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt, labeled marriage to Israeli women haram [religiously forbidden]. He said that Israel aims to destroy the Arabic existence by encouraging such marriages.
Date of source: Friday, March 2, 2001
Pope Shenouda visited the Mufti to congratulate him on the Greater Bairam. Their conversation did not address anything political. It confined itself to how to consolidate national unity, the Islamic-Christian dialogue and Dar Al-Ifta joining the Committee of Inter-Religious Dialogue.
Date of source: Saturday, February 17, 2001
Sixteen members of the Baha’i group were arrested in a village in Upper Egypt. They are accused of apostasy of the real Islam and therefore should not be treated as Muslims. The Mufti stressed the necessity of applying the doctrinal punishment for apostasy to the Baha’i group.
Date of source: Friday, December 29, 2000
At the conference called "Seeing is a right for all," which was held at the Ministry of Health, the Grand Imam and the Mufti said they agreed to the transplantation or donation of body organs as long as this was done legally and agreed upon by doctors. They quoted many Qur’anic verses to support...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
The Mufti issued a statement to explain the real meaning of his Fatwa concerning the legality of defending a spy and to declare that what was written in Al-Masa’i paper in this respect was untrue. The author commented on this saying that the Mufti should have done this earlier and not after readers...
Date of source: Sunday, December 24, 2000
The author responded to three questions: - Why did the Patriarchate not issue a statement about the appearance of the Holy Virgin as Pope Kyrillos VI did? - Why did Pope Shenouda invite those who participated in the series of "Awan Al-Ward" to the iftar party he gave, although many Christians are...
Date of source: Thursday, December 21, 2000
Pope Shenouda and many Muslim religious men received a great number of inquiries and criticisms about the series of "Awan Al-Ward." Christians believe that the series presents the issue of the marriage between a Muslim man and a Christian woman as a matter that should be accepted by Christians out...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
The Mufti declared that his fatwa about the legality of defending a spy was misinterpreted. He said that the real meaning of his fatwa is that the spy who confessed betraying his country should not be defended because defending him may encourage others to commit the same crime. If he considers...
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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.