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Date of source: Tuesday, March 28, 2000
Sub-titles: Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin: An international Islamic conference is needed to study how to choose the Sheikh Al-Azhar. Dr. Abdel-Azim Al-Matani: We must return to the old system: The Sheikh of the Azhar should be selected from the group of the Grand Ulama. Dr. Mohammed Ra’fat Othman: There...
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2000
Dr. Mustafa Al-Fiqi said that the choice of the Sheikh of the Azhar should be by free election. He said that assigning the role reduces the respectability of the Sheikh of the Azhar... He asked also for the separation of Al-Azhar University that contains the Arabic Language department, Sharia and...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 8, 2000
An interview with Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin, author of the controversial book "My father Adam", after the recent rejection of the case to ban the publishing of his book. Here he talks about the comparison of the case to a similar case he brought against Dr. Nasr Abu-Zeid some years ago, and about...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 1, 2000
The Cairo Emergency Court decided yesterday to reject the court case to ban the book "My Father Adam" written by Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin. The court said that there was no direct and personal benefit for the plaintiff.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
Sub-title: The Prophet did not kill any Muslim who renounced his religion The book of the Islamic intellectual Gamal Al-Banna "Islam and the freedom of thought" which was issued lately, raised many questions concerning the issue of apostasy. This is an interview with Gamal Al-Banna who says: "My...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
Terrorism has departed leaving an empty space in its place, the domination over which a long line of new extremists are now fighting. They are the stars of noisy religious speeches on tapes and in books. ... The religious cassette gets higher selling rates than Amr Diab or Kazem Al-Saher [popular...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
The Islamic Researches Council in Al-Azhar decided not to confiscate the books that contradict Islam, and to publish answers to what was contradictory to Islam. Dr. Mohammed Hamdy Zaqzouq, the Minister of Al-Awqaf [Religious Endowments], said that confiscating the books that contradict the Islamic...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
In the weekly seminar for Al-Nidaa’ Al-Gadid [The New Call] organization, the attendees attacked the scholars of Al-Azhar, saying that they adopt a kind of Fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] called "Fiqh Al-Nakad" [Fiqh of annoyance]. The attendees said that they [the Azhar scholars] aim by it to defend...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 1999
Two controversial items in the draft of the new Personal Status Law are Al-Khul’a [a woman’s right to divorce her husband without explanation in exchange for renouncing all her marriage rights and returning the dowry he had given for her], and the right of a married Muslim woman to travel on her...
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 1999
A few days ago, President Mubarak sent the draft of the Procedure law in Personal Status law cases to the Shura Council to discuss it before forwarding it to the People’s Assembly. The draft of the new law which has been drawn up with careful consultation with various bodies, particularly the Al-...
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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.