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Date of source: Tuesday, November 7, 2006
The review presents different news reports from Egypt: Bishop Marqus, the spokesman for Pope Shenouda, asked the government to allow continuance of the “Guidance and Advice sessions.” Parliamentary sessions will be intensively resumed in a new term that is expected to debate proposed...
Date of source: Thursday, November 2, 2006
Arguments about the Ḥijāb and the Niqāb have not ceased, neither in the Islamic world
nor in the West.
Date of source: Thursday, November 2, 2006
Shaykh Yūsuf al-
Badrī filed a lawsuit against Dr Su‘ād Sālih, accusing her of insulting the wives
of the Prophet Muhammad, after she announced her rejection of the Niqāb.
Date of source: Saturday, October 28, 2006
Dr Su‘ād Sālih discusses issues that are related to women in the Islamic sharī‘ah, such as the Ḥijāb, female Muftīīs and the right of women to work in Islām.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The niqāb is stirring controversy in different parts of the World. An Egyptian university professor is to be sued for criticizing it; the Egyptian muftī advises that women don’t wear it and students wearing it will be barred from accessing a university hostel. In Western countries it is regarded as...
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
The review takes up the issue of the niqāb as Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, called on Muslim women in Britain to take off their veils in workplaces, while in Egypt, the President of Hilwān University made a decision to prohibit all niqāb-wearing students from entering the...
Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
A new Islamic satellite channel
launched five
months ago is said to be successful with the people, but is also criticized by scholars for promoting
extremist salafist ideas.
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
A study carried out by
the
Ministry of Social Affairs showed that there are twenty-one thousand children in Egypt who have no name,
identity
or legal existence. These children are the outcome of ‘urfī or unofficial marriages
in which the
father refuses to acknowledge the paternity of his...
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
Prominent Azhar scholars express their views about forcing young girls to wear the khimār.
Date of source: Saturday, September 2, 2006 to Friday, September 8, 2006
The article discusses extremist ideologies
originating from wahābī oil
countries, which consider women to be devils and propagate
misunderstanding of certain hadīths in a
way offensive to women.
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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.