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Date of source: Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Salafists are using fatwás for the first time during the coming elections against liberals and secularists. Fatwás also were used by Sūfīs but in their battle against salafists.
A number of Salafists leaders had issued several fatwás such as: those who do not vote for a Muslim candidate is a false...
Date of source: Monday, September 19, 2011
A number of Sufi sheikhs in Egypt on Wednesday expressed their disapproval at the invitations given out to a number of non-Sufi Islamist leaders to attend the first International Sufi Conference, slated to be held at Al-Azhar’s conference hall on Saturday.
Date of source: Sunday, August 28, 2011
Shaykh Muhammad 'Alā' Abū al-'Azāyīm, one of the founders of Hizb al-Tahrīr al-Misrī [Reviewer's Note: The Party's official website has the name of the party as "Hizb al-Tahrīr" only] has demanded that Israel pay compensation to those killed on the Egyptian-Israeli border last week.
Date of source: Friday, August 12, 2011
Islamic groups threatened to organize a Million-Man protest and ascend its position as a response to what has been announced by the Deputy Prime Minister 'Alī al-Silmī, who said that the government will issue a new constitutional declaration.
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Date of source: Tuesday, May 10, 2011
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, Shiite Muslims protested in front of the Saudi embassy in Cairo, criticizing Saudi Arabia’s alleged funding of salafī groups.
Soon they were joined by Coptic protesters who blamed Saudi Arabia for hosting the former Tunisian President Bin ‘Alī and for interfering in Egypt’...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
On Wednesday, May 4, 2011, the Azhar and Sūfī leaders accused salafists of tarnishing Islam.
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Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2011
On April 19, 2011, the Council of Sūfī Orders has decided to form popular committees to protect shrines of religious figures in Qena from potential assaults by demonstrators. The council is also preparing speeches and lectures to prove that the construction of shrines is in accordance with the...
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2011
As reported in previous summaries [Salafists' destruction of shrines, or Salafists burn shrines amid Azhar criticism] Sūfīs and salafīs have recently clashed over Sūfīs' veneration of shrines of religious figures – a practice that salafīs regard as a form of anti-Islamic polytheism.
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Date of source: Monday, April 11, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood’s attempt to reconcile Sūfīs and salafists on Saturday, April 9, has failed.
Sūfī representative Shaykh Ahmad Sibā’ī refused to sign any settlement paper that does not explicitly refer to the demolition of shrines as harām [forbidden according to Sharī’ah].
Salafī...
Date of source: Sunday, April 10, 2011
On Saturday April 9, Shiite Muslims gathered in front of Saudi Arabia's embassy in Cairo to condemn the kingdom's stance regarding the demolition of shrines and the country’s funding of salafī movements in Egypt.
Demonstrators complained that the Gulf would defend Mubarak and mobilize salafīs to...
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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.