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Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2001
Attorney Nabih Al-Wahsh filed a lawsuit against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband because she has left Islam and has not repented of her community-damaging ideas. The Mufti thinks that what Al-Sa’adawi said requires her to leave Islam and includes denials of what she knows about...
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: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar wrote an article on the cosmic verses in the Qur’an. In this article he wrote that the revealed books before the Qur’an were all lost or altered. Therefore, the Qur’an is the only book where reciting it is like praying. The author believes that Al-Naggar should not have...
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 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: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
Some professors think that if male students sit next to their female colleagues something immoral might happen. They consider this to be an evil vicious act. In the Faculty of Commerce a professor refuses to let in male students who apply cream to their hair and female students who wear make-up,...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Many girls declared their wish to work as marriage officials and explained that such a job is not Haram [religiously forbidden]. Scholars in Jordan explain that men are doing the job and there is no need for women in the field. Other scholars do not mind to have women working as marriage officials...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 12, 2000
[A Dhimmi: A name used for Christian or a Jewish women who married a Muslim man. The term refers back to the time Christians and Jews were protected under Islamic rule.]
An Egyptian living in the Netherlands, wrote to Aqidati asking whether his Kitabi [person believing in one of the other two "...
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2000
Adel Hamouda uses a very sarcastic tone to relate two stories. One is about a bearded man who did not allow a lifeguard to save his veiled wife, who was fighting for her life in the waves of the sea, because the lifeguard is not related to her and thus does not have the right to touch her. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 29, 2000
The incident began on November 17, 1998. G.K.B. filed a warning request against M.L.G. of applying to his rented Beit El-Ta’a [literally means, house of obedience. It is the husband’s house to which a woman, in a case of unlawful desertion, must return]. Based on that request, the defendant filed...
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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.