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Date of source: Thursday, September 11, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Nasr Farid Wasel, the former Mufti of Egypt and member of the Islamic Research Institute, about the status of Muslims, and conditions in Iraq and Palestine.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 26, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Nasr Farid Wasel, the former Mufti of Egypt and member of the Islamic Research Institute, about the status in Iraq and Palestine.
Date of source: Saturday, July 12, 2003
The article is a comment on the fatwa of Yemeni Sheikh Abdel-Mageed Al-Zanadani who suggested having a new marriage system called “marriage friend” instead of the boy/girl friend system in the West. The fatwa was issued to help Muslim youth in the West to commit to the Islamic principles. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 22, 2003
A fatwa issued by the former Mufti of Egypt stipulating that currency trade is haram has caused a juridical debate between Azhar scholars. The Sheikh of the Azhar referred the fatwa to the Islamic Research Institute for examination and comment.
Date of source: Friday, February 28, 2003
The Islamic Research Institute decided to nominated famous Christian surgeon Dr. Magdy Yaqoub for the King Faisal High Award in medical science.
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2003
Dr. Soad Saleh, comparative jurisprudence professor at the Azhar University, says that the Mufti of Egypt welcomes her demand to appoint a female mufti. She accepts women assuming presidency of the State but rejects that a woman be appointed as a grand imam of the Azhar
Date of source: Thursday, September 15, 2005
The Azhar ‘ulamā’ have categorically rejected a recent statement made by Abu Muscab al-Zarqāwī, leader of al-Qācida group ‘Jihād in the Country of Two Rivers’ [Tanzīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād FiBilād al-Rāfidayn] in which he declared that Hurricane Katrina is God’s revenge for the U.S. occupation of Iraq...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Everyone is now busy trying to predict how religious Muslims and Christians would choose a presidential candidate, and whether their choice would be based on religious or political criteria. Some religious institutions have already declared their support for President Mub ārak.
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 2004
Like an ice ball, sectarian sedition feeds on all it encounters en route, thus growing larger and more threatening to national unity in Egypt, read a feature by Al-Arabi!
A few days back, sectarian sedition flames came to the surface in Assiut with one of the National Democratic Party NDP leaders...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Khalil Abdel Kareem´s book ”Al-Nass Al-Mu´assis Wa Mujtama´u” caused great controversy in the religious circles in Egypt. Some people asked for the confiscation of the book, which is believed to celebrate the ideas of some orientalists, defame the Prophet and his companions and raise...
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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.