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Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2002
A Muslim woman living in America said that she lived hard times in Ramadan this year. Her mother’s name will go to the Department of Justice because she donates food to a family in Bosnia. She cannot attend any mosque meetings fearing that her car’s license plate number might be recorded in the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 23, 2002
The Muslim Brotherhood’s representative in the parliament submitted a suggestion saying that the office of dean of faculty should be chosen by elections rather than by appointment. This is an attempt on the part of the Brotherhood to control the leading positions in universities. Many university...
Date of source: Saturday, March 23, 2002
The Egyptian law relies on the French law concerning crimes of adultery. This way, the law lacks equality between men and women in cases when one of them is caught red handed in marital unfaithfulness. It also lacks equality in the punishment related to this crime. Many men of law believe that the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002
The latest fatwa of Sheikh Atiya Saqr that forbids shaking hands between men and women is a return to the dogmatic opinions that preceded the explosion of terrorism in Egypt. The author wondered how could Egypt fight terrorism without fighting such strange beliefs that create the atmosphere for the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002
Many Azhar professors said that shaking hands between women and men is not haram as long as the people involved in the handshake do not have bad intentions of lust or desire. Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi criticized the way Sheikh Atiya Saqr follows in interpreting hadiths. He said that Sheikh Saqr...
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Members of the radical group Al-Da’wa Wa Tabligh distribute pamphlets about actresses who repented among pilgrims. The author believes this to be a kind of trade. The article gives three of repentance stories mentioned in these pamphlets.
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
The court refused to hear a lawsuit field by the Brotherhood members studying at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, against the administration of the faculty because of its decision to pull down an old mosque in the faculty. The faculty administration said that it decided to pull down...
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Sheikh Attiya Saqr issued a fatwa to the effect that shaking hands between men and women is haram [religiously forbidden], as men touches the hands of women with the aim of satisfying their desires. Some Azhar professors and Islamic thinkers believed the fatwa to be strange and extremist.
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Social pressures led to the formation of certain social identifications stressing the concept of fatalism. However, creeds disagree with fatalism, as they call for faith and faith is facultative. Some people say that faith is the only criterion upon which man is rewarded by paradise or punished by...
Date of source: Saturday, December 7, 2002
The Islamic Research Institute issued a fatwa confirming that bank interests are permissible and does not involve any type of usury. The fatwa aroused controversy in the banking sector and between a large number of investors to such extent that some of them asked for the abolishment of the so-...
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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.