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Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
A delegation of representatives of political powers and public figures visited Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III to support him in the face of salafists' demonstrations and slogans chanted against him.
The delegation included veteran journalist 'Ādil Hamūdah and political activist Nawārah Ahmad Fu'...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 [Coptic tycoon Najīb] Sawiris asked the Azhar Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayīb in the name of Egyptian Copts to protect the country’s Coptic minority.
He further called for the establishment of a civil committee, handling issues of inter-religious conversions and for a law...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
On Sunday, May 8, 2011, hundreds of imāms marched to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and demanded the administrative and financial independence of the Azhar.
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Date of source: Saturday, April 30, 2011
A number of 100 niqāb-clad women protested in front of Dār al-Iftā' (Iftā' House) on April 29, 2011, for banning women wearing the niqāb from entering the exam rooms.
Muftī of the Republic Shaykh 'Alī Jum'ah had issued a fatwá banning niqāb in exam halls, then the Supreme Administrative Court...
Date of source: Monday, April 25, 2011
‘Abd Allāh al-Husānī, Minister of Awqaf, filed a complaint with the Military Council and the Attorney General describing the development of the al-Nour mosque crisis in 'Abbāssīyah.
The complaint came after the imām of the mosque was not allowed to give last Friday's sermon and described the attack...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, dozens of Imams and Islamic preachers who were expelled by Egypt’s former State Security Investigations Service protested in front of the Ministry of Religious Endowments, demanding to be given their jobs back.
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Date of source: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
On Tuesday, April 26, 2011, about 15,000 Imams and Islamic preachers publicly demanded that al-Azhar be an independent institution with elected, rather than appointed, Grand Shaykhs. They further demanded that the Ministry of Religious Endowments as well as the Iftā’ House shall be under al-Azhar’s...
Date of source: Friday, April 15, 2011
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, said he would visit the church of the Two Martyrs in Atfih April 16, 2011 to congratulate Copts on the rebuilding of their church.
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 2010
In her speech during the Islamic Thinking Forum, Su'ād Sālih, professor of comparative fiqh at the Azhar University, criticized the state of weakness the Islamic nation has reached. Sālih told al-Misrī al-Yawm that she does not regret joining al-Wafd Party.
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2011
A group of salafists in al-Menoufiya governorate set a Muslim shrine on fire under the pretext that tombs of Muslim scholars, considered holy by many Muslims, are against the Muslim faith.
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Ahmad al-Tayīb said that whoever demands the destruction of shrines belong to bloody...
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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.