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Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
A German foundation finances a conference aimed at convincing Muslim scholars to prohibit female circumcision.
Date of source:
Egypt was angry about the stormy reactions that broke following the
sentence given to
Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The ruling renewed tension between Egypt and the U.S., which considers
Ibrahim an
American human rights activist. It condemned the ruling and started a new verbal war against the Cairo...
Date of source: Monday, September 25, 2000
Al-Usbua published a file opposing Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s plans to monitor the coming elections under the title "No to dubious supervision. No to interference in Egypt’s affairs."
Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2006
The author attacks an
article published by the independent newspaper al-Ghad, the mouthpiece of Ayman Nūr’s al-Ghad
Party, in which the journalist criticized the sahābah.
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2006
The widespread phenomenon of the Niqāb in Egyptian society has provoked strong reaction from many thinkers and writers, as well as from well-known European politicians, including Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Commons, who said in a recent statement that wearing the "full veil" [...
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
Zaynab ‘Abd Allāh writes about the latest controversial fatwá by Jamāl
al-
Bannā about smoking during fasting. She claims that the fatwá is only meant to distract
people’s
attention since there is nothing logic about it.
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
Scholars inside the Azhar
are split over a project proposed by a
businessman to have a stock exchange dealing in currency, a system of
economic activity that is new in Egypt
and Arab and Islamic countries, amidst arguments as to whether the proposal
runs counter to the
sharī‘a.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
The Egyptian Muftī cAlī
Juma‘ has been
quoted by some newspapers as saying in a seminar at the Azhar that extremists must
be killed and there is no need
to talk with them. According to these papers, he lauded security forces for
their approach to radicals.To verify
such reports, al- Usbua‘...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The recent plans of
the Egyptian
Ministry of Awqāf [Endowments] to introduce a single call to prayer has met with huge
opposition
from the public and a number of Muslim scholars, arguing that the unification of the azān
runs
contrary to the Islamic sharī‘a.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
Zaynab
‘Abd al-Ilāh, author of the article, sheds light upon how the
two newly-innovated types of
marriages, friend and Misyār marriage, have met with controversial
views from Islamic clerics.
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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.