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Date of source: Thursday, September 12, 2019
Statements by ʿAbd Allāh Rushdī, an Egyptian researcher, imām, and preacher at al-Sayiddah Nafīssah Mosque, about marrying female captives and having sex with them is causing a flurry of backlash. When he was asked on Twitter about owning a female slave and having sex with her, he said, “She is a...
Date of source: Thursday, May 9, 2019
The Coptic Orthodox Church announced that the Southern Diocese of the United States of America is organizing, for the first time, a new celebration for the event of the entrance of Christ into the land of Egypt under the name of Global Coptic Day.
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2012
Muslim scholars, during a symposium on the media’s role in the society, appealed to the mass media to observe accuracy, objectives and Islamic values established by the Prophet Muhammad more than 1400 years ago so the nation may rise up and find its way out of its predicament. [Ahmad ‘Abd al-...
Date of source: Friday, December 28, 2012
Mehmet Görmez, head of Presidency of Religious Affairs, the highest Islamic authority in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, said that celebrations of Christmas and New Year is idolatry and heretic.
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Political and social theorist Sir Isaiah Berlin famously compared nationalism to a ‘bent twig’, ‘forced down so severely that when released, it lashed back wit
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, received on Wednesday a delegation of Nigerian doctors, religious and community leaders.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Dawūd, Islamic thinker and professor at the Suez Canal university, stated that the people will choose the ‘strong trusted one’ in the coming forthcoming presidential elections.
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2014
Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, Minister of Endowments, assured that protecting tourists is a religious duty.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Egyptian Columnist Saḥar al-Jaʿārah writes this week:
It is not surprising that from time to time there are calls for "polygamy". However, polygamy is no solution to the spinsterhood crisis; it is in fact a consecration of the idea of , al-Misyār marriage, literally, the traveler’s marriage, which...
Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2014
Dr. Ibrāhīm Nigm, the advisor to the grand muftī, says that Islam prohibits the shedding of blood of any human being. It also prohibits violence in all its forms.
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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.