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Date of source: Friday, August 22, 1997
Christian organizations have continued their attacks against
Muslims, alleging that the persecution of
Copts is the most important human rights issue. This was alleged by an
organization called the Patriotic
Federation of Missionaries and came at the same time as many false accusations
from...
Date of source: Saturday, September 2, 2006 to Friday, September 8, 2006
The Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy is split
over a book authored by a
businessman that interprets the Qur’ān in more than 27,000 verses. He
says his book, the first
literary epic in the Arab world dealing with interpretation of the
Qur’ān, will make it easier
for the public to understand...
Date of source: Friday, September 1, 2006
An Egyptian author writes in favor
of Israel and Judaism in a book banned by the Azhar
University.
Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2006
Sawt
al-Ummah discusses a controversial book
published by the Ministry of Awqāf (Endowments), calling
for the killing of Bahā’īs.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 27, 2006
The author
reviews the opinion of a committee of the Azhar to ban the
publicizing of adultery-related cases amidst
outcry from media professors who assert that such a ban has not
prevented adultery in other countries.
Date of source: Thursday, June 8, 2006
The controversial document of
religious rights has
disappeared from the Azhar sheikhdom, raising many questions over the grand
imām’s
relations to it. Al-Maydān publishes a picture of Dr.
Tantāwī and Shaykh
cAmr al-Bastawīsī, the former head of the office
of the grand imām,
shaking hands...
Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
A recent Administrative
Judicial Court ruling allowing Egyptian Bahā’īs to have their religion recognized on official
documents and the issue of Bahā’ī marriage have been a subject of heated debate in the
Egyptian press.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The article praises a court ruling repealing a previous ruling that gave
Egypt’s nearly 1000
Bahā’īs the right to have their faith registered in official documents, with
opinions by
intellectuals that Bahā’ism is not a religion and that the only religions recognized in Egypt
are the
divine...
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2006
The author, a member of the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, affirms that Islam does not accept the ‘Urfī marriage because it is not registered and consequently would cause the rights of either party of the ‘Urfī couple to be lost, since the courts of law acknowledge only marriage contracts...
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author reviews the
opinions of university professors about the enactment of an
international law criminalizing any assaults on the
Muslim faith in particular or divine religions in
general.
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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.