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Date of source: Thursday, May 3, 2001
Many men of religion, Islamic scholars and intellectuals refuted Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s opinions. Sheikh Abdel-Monsif Mahmoud said that pilgrimage is not a pagan relic but is basically a declaration of leaving paganism. Adel-Fattah Abdel-Karim said that her demand to allow women to marry more than...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Novelist Tharwat Abaza believes that Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s opinion that going on pilgrimage is paganism indicates a serious mistake and disbelief and that her ideas about inheritance and her claim to make man equal with woman is a major disaster. He said that his judgment of Al-Sa’adawi is based on...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Nawal Al-Sa’adawi recounted the story of the interview one of the independent newspapers ran with her. She said that her words were changed, wondering whether she was stupid to excite millions of Muslims by saying, at the time of pilgrimage, that pilgrimage is paganism. She stressed that she would...
Date of source: Thursday, April 19, 2001
Lawyer Nabih Al-Wahish introduced a new notification against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi, in which he asked the General Attorney to file a Hisba [the right of a Muslim to defend public morality, suing on behalf of religion] suit against Al-Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband as she has denied the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 17, 2001
One of the newspapers ran an interview with Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi, in which she was asked her opinion about going on pilgrimage and other issues. The author argues against her opinions and claims that her knowledge of Islam is poor.
Date of source: Friday, April 13, 2001
At the outset of one of the most controversial trials here in recent memory, Egyptian academics faced the image of one of their own locked in a cage in a courtroom, on trial for harming the reputation of the country. The government’s charges against the prominent scholar, Saad Eddin Ibrahim stem...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt said that Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi disapproves of religious matters while being fully aware of it, maintaining and insisting on her disapproval and obscenities. Thus according to the Shari’a [Islamic Law], she steps out of the area of Islam and leaves Muslim society.
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: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Nawal Al-Sa’adawi attacked the cultural scene in Egypt. She criticized the lack of freedom of writers, and protested about confiscation of her books. Another incident that upset the government was the High Administrative Court’s reversal of a government decision to change ownership of Al-Nour...
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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.