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Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2004
Despite being founded only nine months ago, many people have started to bring charges against The National Council for Human Rights. We went to Dr. Botros Ghali, head of the NCHR, to answer people’s inquiries about the prospective role of the Council. In fact, Dr. Botros Ghali was so frank and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Outside Iraq many Muslim scholars and members of the Muslim Brotherhood expressed their wholehearted support of what they called ‘the Iraqi resistance’ through satellite TVs in the Gulf countries and the heavily circulated Islamized newspapers. They wrote about their viewpoints that go in line with...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Dr. Amna Nosseir, a professor of jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, has been calling on the Dar Al-Ifta to set up a council involving all specializations in all walks of life to thoroughly study public affairs of concern to major issues in society like organ transplants, bank profits and...
Date of source: Thursday, September 30, 2004
Many Muslim preachers are not qualified for their mission. They have forgotten that eloquence as well as keeping up with the times is most required in any preacher. Now, the question is, is there a real need for reforming religious establishments?
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 2004
The imams charged by the Ministry of Endowments with lecturing people between prayers, limit their lectures to timeworn issues that do not relate to our current social concerns. This goes back to the rigid books taught at the Azhar University. The Ministry is also to be blamed for this because of...
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 2004
Dr. Hamdy Zaqzouq, Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments], has lately issued a list including thirty-four scholars and men of religion who are allowed to appear in the Egyptian television channels. This list includes senior trustable scholars and thinkers, yet some questions remains. What is the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq was able to embarrass his opponents when he presented the statement issued by the Egyptian Grand Mufti, Dr. Ali Goma’a, in which he emphasized that unifying the Azan is lawful according to Shari’a and that the great four Muslim imams permitted performing a singe Azan for a...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Noah, Lot, Joseph, Jacob, Job, David, Solomon, Moses and Jesus are all messengers of God. So why then should we deny their followers and dub them as kufar [unbelievers] just because the vocabulary of their creeds differs from that of Islam?
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
The Coptic case is a case of a religious minority looking for full recognition and integration, enjoying all rights and duties, in their country, while preserving their cultural heritage. In other words, the prognosis of the Copts’ situation should, in fact, be summed-up under one heading: being...
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 2004
The Coptic Association of Thamarat Al-Mahaba held a conference under the title of “Citizenship and Globalization…Copts in a Changeable Society” at its headquarters in Shubra, the heart of Cairo. This title was derived from the name of a book by the researcher and writer Hany Labib. Head of the...
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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.