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Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments], stressed that his ministry did not breach the rules of Shari’a or infringe on fundamental aspects of Islamic religion when it adopted a project aiming at unifying the azan of Greater Cairo’s mosques. In a press conference, the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
Muslim fundamentalists in London expressed their concern over the deteriorating heath of Sultan Barakat Semada a [Muslim] fundamentalist detained at the Egyptian Torah prison.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2004
The Chechen revolution is a patriotic resistance movement and not an Islamic movement. It seems that the world became accustomed to describe any criminal act carried out by a group whose members are Muslims as ‘terrorism’. The world witnesses in every moment hundreds of crimes which are committed...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Many people believe that Azharite professors should be our only source of knowledge, accusing other scholars of being unqualified to deliver the same religious message. An Azharite professor, Dr. Abdel Sabour Marzouq, asserts that it is not right to confine preaching to a specific category. “There...
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
Some days ago and in one of the daily newspapers we read a unique idiom. The idiom reads “the Islamic example of the sexual relation.” Even the sexual relation between a husband and a wife was classified religiously under Islamic concepts.
Why do we insist on adding the word ‘Islamic’ to every...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 2004
The Grand Mufti stated that jizya should be imposed on non-Orthodox Christians living in Egypt. He confirmed that jizya is deeply rooted in Fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence]. We must differentiate, however, between Orthodox Christians; Egyptian citizens, and other Christian denominations, including...
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
The Egyptian church issued statements stressing that it has nothing to do with archpriest Zakariya Botros, whose name became associated with a series of problems he caused through discussing faith-related matters. In spite of this, books authored by Archpriest Botros are sold in Christian bookshops...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
If all Muslims gather to select a movie that describes the lofty reality of Islam they will not be able to present the same vivid picture as that of the French movie Monsieur Ibrahim et Les Fleurs du Coran. The movie stars Omar Al-Sherif who won a special award at Cannes Film Festival. The movie...
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 2004
The most respectable artistic magazine in Egypt, Al-Kawakib [The Stars], published an article about the views of the new preacher Amr Khalid on art. Although superficiality of Khalid’s opinions is expected, deception is not accepted. Amr Khaled applied a cunning trick to corrupt the original...
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2004
At the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century, Western civilization has started to see Islam as an enemy that can replace the former Soviet Union. Western hatred and enmity towards Islam go back to the early nineties of the twentieth century and not to the September 11 attacks as...
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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.