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Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2011
AWR's Diana Maher Ghali writes a two days' press review on Imbābah incidents.
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
The Ministry of Awqāf managed to take back al-Nūr mosque pulpit after the salafī movement snatched it away during the past Fridays.
After Friday prayers clashes had erupted between security forces and the military on one hand and the salafists on the other.
[Reviewer's Note: News story was also...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
A march of thousands of people started from al-Nūr mosque to the U.S. embassy in Cairo/Egypt condemning the death of al-Qā'idah leader Usāmah Bin Lādin.
Shaykh Hāfiz Salāmah, the leader of the protesters, went to the embassy first by car and did not participate in the march because of his old age...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, former Muftī of the Republic and member of the Islamic Research Academy, said that niqāb is not a farīdah or a religious duty, but should be categorized as personal freedom.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
'Isām Sharaf visited Qena, where he met clerics and asserted that Egypt is not a place for fitnah tā'īfiyah.
He then headed to the conference room to deliver a speech for Qena's residents, but salafists and some remnants of the former regime's dissolved party, the National Democratic Party (NDP),...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Fathī Khatāb writes that negative generalization on salafism is not fair, because every Muslim tries to imitate what they call the al-salaf al-sālih or the good forefathers, but the new salafists, who emerged during the 70s, began to swerve into a stricter version of fundamentalism.
Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Around 30,000 salafists gathered in front the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, calling for freeing of Kāmīliyā Shihātah and any other Copts who, according to them, have converted to Islam and were locked inside the monastery.
The military police surrounded the Coptic cathedral to prevent any possible...
Date of source: Friday, April 22, 2011
“There shouldn't be any party based on religion or any religious views” says Muhamad Shībl, a Muslim thinker.
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Family court in al-Zaytūn divorced a Christian woman from her husband after he converted to Islam.
Muná N. married Girgis K. in 1978 by the law of the Coptic Orthodox Church and gave birth to 2 children. After 33 years of marriage he converted to Islam and as consequently the Islamic sharī'ah had...
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2011
Mr. Mamdūh Ismā‘īl, Egyptian Bar Association, filed a report to Councillor ‘Abd al-Majīd Maḥmūd, against Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, muftī of the republic of Egypt, for inciting against citizens of Egypt from a foreign state.
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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.