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Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2001 to Friday, June 22, 2001
The Brotherhood MPs are focusing on the ministers of education, health, culture, agriculture, and interior. Each of them specializes in attacking a ministry. The most active is Dr. Mohammed Gamal Hishmat, who filed 61 inquiries to the ministers of health, education, and higher education and...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood want to form a political party to end their series of failed coalitions with other parties. Dr. Essam Al-Erian said that founding a Brotherhood Party was the only way to end the stagnation in the Egyptian political arena.
Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2001
The president of the "Islamic Legal Court" and the spokesman of the Shari’a [Islamic law] Supporters Group urged Muslims not to vote in the coming British elections. They argued that a person who voted for a man to make laws was an unbeliever [Kafir]. The author believes that their opinions mean...
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
The author is of the opinion that some scientific facts could be diminished by popular ideas disguised by religion one time, and ethics or politics at other times. The ex-President of Cairo University and ex-Minister of Health, testified before the Islamic Research Institute that it was very...
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
The dean of the faculty of Law and Shari’a is of the opinion that the sheikhs give out fatwas because they have the required knowledge. However, giving fatwas is not limited to sheikhs. Others, who have sufficient knowledge about the Arabic language, Qur’anic sciences, and Mohammed’s tradition can...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2001
The sentences of the members of the Gama’at Al-Islamiyya and Jihad organizations, who issued the initiative to cease violence, will end on October 12. The former head of the State Security said that there is no doubt that the cease-violence initiative contributed to the fact that many of the secret...
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: Sunday, April 22, 2001
The Islamic Research Institute rejected Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi’s fatwa permitting a married woman with children to host another couples’ zygote. It drove Prof. Bayoumi to withdraw his opinion for the sake of the integrity of the Muslim nation. Bayoumi said that the topic is still open for discussion...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
The Archbishop of Syria said that Pope John Paul II will enter the Umayad mosque of Damascus, in his visit to Syria, to visit the tomb of John the Baptist inside the mosque. The unofficial program of the tour includes the pope meeting the Mufti of Syria.
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001 to Friday, April 20, 2001
A sheikh, who worked for ten years in Germany as a teacher, and learned "Al-Higama" [scarification, his method of "treatment" teaches people how to treat themselves in this way. He does not take any fees for his practice. Instead he sells the visitors two audio tapes and a booklet explaining Al-...
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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.