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Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2008
Umaymah Ibrāhīm reports on the deteriorating social and financial conditions of imāms of mosques in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
Some people consider themselves as da‘iyas, although they are neither scholars of Qur’ān and Hadīth nor graduates of the Azhar. Such people are also being hosted on religion programs, on which they spread strange fatwas.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Some Azhar clerics react to the issue of disputed child custody between a
Christian mother and her husband who converted to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, December 8, 2003
The Mufti of Egypt issued a fatwa to the effect that wives are entitled to be paid for breast-feeding their children and serving their husbands. The author believes it is not acceptable that Muslim scholars neglect essential and important issues and focus on issues of secondary importance that do...
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2002
Christian actress Hala Sidqi raised a khul´a case against her husband after changing her religious denomination. A Christian lawyer said that according to the law of the canonical courts, the marriage contract is considered to be invalid if the husband or the wife changes his/her denomination...
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.