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Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thousands of Copts descended on the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ‘Abbāssīyah, Cairo on Friday, May 6, in response to a Salafi Muslim demonstration at the same location a week earlier
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The hardline Islamists, blamed for attacks on Coptic churches, had already been accused of stoking religious strife since the uprising that ousted the former regime which had kept them in check for decades.
Many salafī clerics proscribe rebellions against Muslim rulers and shy away from democratic...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
On Wednesday, May 4, 2011, the Azhar and Sūfī leaders accused salafists of tarnishing Islam.
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Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Muslim Broterhood has big hopes of becoming a major and legitimate political force, though there might be a cost.
A delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood visited the Azhar's Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayīb.
He invited all Islamist movements to participate in the forthcoming conference the Azhar will...
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: Friday, May 6, 2011
Hundreds of salafists, including dozens of fully-veiled women, protested outside the Azhar offices in northern Cairo, urging the Muftī, a senior Muslim cleric in Egypt who issues religious edicts, to backtrack on his view on the head-to-toe veil.
The protesters raised banners that went further...
Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2011
Salafī Shaykh Muhammad Hasān praised the pure revolution of Egypt's youths that eliminated corruption, adding that an Islamic state would guarantee safety for Copts.
Hasān condemned the killing of Usāmah Bin Lādin and throwing his body into the sea, considering him a martyr. [Read Salafī Shaykh...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
'Abūd al-Zumur, founding member of Egypt's Islamic Jihād Organization and friend of al-Qā'idah's new chief Ayman al-Zawahrī, said on 3 March 2011 that Usāmah Bin Lādin's death will not affect the organization and pleaded against revenge attacks.
Zumur, who was in jail with Zawāhrī, said Bin Lādin...
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.
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Date of source: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The elections are swiftly approaching and none of the new parties has yet officially been endorsed.
They might not have a chance of victory in the coming elections. The public and the revolutionaries have been concerned lately, as they did not go through all the trouble of launching a revolution to...
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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.