Date of source: Friday, September 10, 2004
Lecture about the need for understanding between Muslims and Christians. Presented in AWR as background to the lecture in Cairo, July 2004.
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2004
Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the Anglican Church of the UK, today begins his visit to Egypt in response to an invitation from both the bishop of the Anglican Church and the Grand Imam of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi. The two-day visit comes in the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Today we will look at the means to restore trust between the Islamic World and the West. There is no inherent gulf between the Islamic World and the West but the current obstacles standing before restoring trust between the Islamic World and the West must be removed.
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 2004
Dr. Abdel Sattar Darwish, head of the religious administration for the Muslims of Kazakhstan and the general mufti for the state of Kazakhstan, confirmed that dialogue between religions and sects is necessary for peaceful coexistence in society and for the end of religious bigotry.
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2004
[The title is a play on words of the name of the Muslim Group of Takfir and Higra] We have to give up our useless approaches in dealing with the world. We have to adopt an approach that is based on tafkir [thinking] and not on takfir [accusation of unbelief]. We only have to count that number of...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 4, 2004
Could the Union of Muslim Scholars recently established in Ireland be the solution to the conflict of fatwas in the Islamic world? What are the conditions, under which this union was born, and what does its charter say, and who funds it?
These questions are answered by Dr. Muhammad Selim Al-Awa,...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Responses to Lord Carey’s Cairo lecture. Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi and the Mufti Dr. Ali Goma’a stressed the need for mutual understanding between Muslims and Christians. Questions were asked about bad reporting, the meaning of dialogue and evangelism.
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2004
Pope Shenouda, the Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, warned of sectarian strife in Iraq and expressed his concern that attacks might target a number of churches. He saw such attacks as an attempt to divide Muslims and Christians in Iraq. These warnings came in a...
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
Last Friday morning an agreement was signed by the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi and Pope Shenouda III.
Dr. Al-Sammaan, the deputy head of the Azhar Permanent Committee for Inter-religious Dialogue, stated it is for the good of Islam that the Azhar Committee maintains good...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
Yesterday, the Grand Imam of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi and Pope Shenouda III witnessed the signing of the Islamic-Christian dialogue agreement. Sheikh Hamed Al-Rafa’i, chairman of the Global Islamic Forum for Dialogue, and Girgis Saleh, secretary general of the Middle East Council of...