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Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2003
El-Geel, a weekly paper reported that the Sheikh of the Azhar calls the Minister of Culture and officials of the ministry kufar [unbelievers]. The Minister sent the Sheikh of the Azhar a letter asking him about the truth of such news. The Sheikh of the Azhar denied this and asserted he would never...
Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2003
Since the Arab Culture Conference started, Al-Liwa Al-Islami has been writing against it, describing it as an anti-Islam conference. Part of its criticism of the conference was directed to the Minister of Culture, who called for it, and to Al-Qahera, the paper of the ministry. The two papers have...
Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2003
Secularists are playing the role of roaming poets to spread a culture that is similar to the culture of Gypsies. They seek to draw the attention of the umma away from its glories past and its attempts to overcome the current crisis in order to get into an absurd theological maze or a new kind of...
Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2003
Vice-chairman of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs stressed that protecting faith is a sacred national duty in all religions and civilizations world -wide. He pointed out that secularists seeks to overstep religion, the Qur´anic text, and even the Muslim nation in order to pave the way...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 26, 2003
The article covers a symposium held in Paris about renewing the religious discourse under the title “Consultative meeting about scientific means to renew religious discourse.” Among the papers discussed in the symposium was a paper sent by Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 26, 2003
The article is an interview with Muslim Brotherhood member Dr. Abdel-Monem Abu Al-Fotouh. He comments on the Iraqi crisis, religious extremism, the religious discourse of the group, the attitude of the group towards freedom of creativity and the religious and political perspectives of the group.
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2006
The grand muftī of Egypt has issued a fatwa saying that statues are harām, but Egyptian intellectuals have taken an opposing stand, defending the art of sculpture.
Date of source: Sunday, March 26, 2006
Ismā‘īl Muntasir, the author, comments on a book by the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci entitled "The Force of Reason,” which includes opinions that he believes reflect Fallaci ’s deep grudge against Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2003
The author believes that the Azhar Inter-Religious Dialogue Committee has turned into a public relations office doing nothing but distributing complements and congratulations at Western churches without having a real dialogue with the Vatican.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2003
The author criticized the Arab Culture Conference for the fact that it discussed the issue of renewing the religious discourse without inviting men of religion. He also criticized the call of the conference to secularism.
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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.