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Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
Some people are trying to promote some products and magazines by offering religious CDs and cassette albums containing recordings of Qur’anic recitals by two unknown sheikhs. The former dean of the Arabic Language Faculty at the Azhar University said that there was nothing wrong about these CDs and...
Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
The Islamic da’wa was badly affected as it has been carried out by people who concentrate on the appearance rather than the core of religion. Islam will not benefit from people who travel to Europe and America wearing short white gallabiyas, sitting on the ground licking their fingers after having...
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2001
In this article Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi speaks about Islam and secularism, the weakness and disunity among Muslims, the Muslims’ aggression towards the West, the violence of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and the responsibility of the preachers, thinkers and the governments towards correcting the...
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
American authorities imposed restrictive traveling procedures on the do’a [preachers] the Azhar sends to the USA to preach and spread Islam by joining the Islamic centres there.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
The author speaks about the absent role of the Islamic religious institution and gives his perception of the role it should play. He believes that the Islamic religious institution is not able to spread an awareness of Islam in the West, which believes Islam to be the new enemy of western...
Date of source: Saturday, September 1, 2001 to Friday, September 7, 2001
A national newspaper published an advertisement to the effect that different religious questions could be answered by Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi and a group of the Azhar sheikhs over the Islamic telephone line. It seems that Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi was chosen to replace Amr Khalid through the Islamic...
Date of source: Thursday, November 16, 2000
The Moroccan Minister of Waqfs spoke in an interview about the importance of having an international organization for Friday preachers in all the mosques of the world. He added that the dialogue between different Islamic denominations should concentrate on their contents and on finding one scale...
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2000
This article discusses the technique false do’a [plural of Da’iya, preacher] and terrorists use to control simple people’s minds. The story, by which the author starts his article, and the image he used, help in conveying that causing fear and confusion to disable the mind from thinking properly,...
Date of source: Thursday, June 22, 2000
Professor Mahmoud Ghazi, member of the Pakistani National Security Council and member of the Da’awa [calling people to join the faith of Islam] Academy in Pakistan talked to Afaq Arabia concerning the status of Da’awa in south and central Asia.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000 to Friday, May 12, 2000
Some hidden parties, in Egypt, are trying to substitute the role of the religious institutions, like Azhar and the Ministry of Religious Affairs, in the call to religion missions. Thus leaving the path open to the non qualified charlatans, to assume such a vital responsibility, abusing the need of...
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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.