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Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2001
"The formation period in the life of Mohammed" written by Khalil Abdel-Karim caused widespread arguments. Dr. Abdel-Azim Al-Matani of the Azhar University accused the author of harming Islam and disfiguring the Prophet Mohammed. The book claimed that Mohammed imagined receiving the Qur’an from...
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: Thursday, September 21, 2000
Concerted efforts to reconcile the Sheikh of the Azhar and the Scholars’ Front failed after Dr. Tantawi declared that he did not acknowledge the existence of the Scholars’ Front. On the other hand, the General Secretary of the Front said, " the existence of the Azhar Scholars’ Front is a fact that...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The statement issued by 31 scholars of the Azhar Scholars Front rejecting the Personal Status Law raised many questions about the identity of these scholars and to what extent they belong to the Azhar, especially since Sheikh Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, and The Islamic Research Council...
Date of source: Thursday, February 18, 1999 to Wednesday, February 24, 1999
Many young people are coming to believe that Urfi marriage is the only legitimate alternative to premarital sex, which is condemned as sinful. Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, called upon the government to ban Urfi marriages at a Fair seminar last week, saying that "these...
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.