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Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
A new Islamic satellite channel
launched five
months ago is said to be successful with the people, but is also criticized by scholars for promoting
extremist salafist ideas.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
This article
says that religious dialogue has turned into a source of
income and that most of the shaykhs who travel abroad are
not qualified for this mission.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The author
of the article blames the
backwardness of Muslims on their inability to bridge up their differences. He says
the Grand Imām’s
appointment by the presidency results in religious institutions supporting the idea of
obedience to the ruler.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The author argues that
the relationship between the Qur’ān and
science and the outdated books taught at some
Azhar schools are behind the backwardness of the Muslim
East.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Committee of al-Azhar for Dialogue with Monotheistic Religions was dissolved due to estimated
shortages of the
committee in facing the recent repeated offenses against Islam. A new committee was
formed.
Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
The Netherlands’ ambassador to Cairo met the Grand Imām of the Azhar to
express his country’s desire to learn more about true Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The U.S.
ambassador to Cairo
assured that the Islamic preachers, whose visa requests were refused, were not from the Azhar,
asserting
that his country welcomes Azharite preachers to teach Americans the real image of Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Subtitle:Saad Zaghloul distributed
bibles to excellent students and made, for the first time, the study of
Christianity a scholastic
subjectNot mentioning the religion on the identity card is an important request.
Syria did it, but
Egypt continues to refuseThere is a belief that Copts are rich...
Date of source: Friday, June 20, 1997
Subtitle: The permanent committee for research gives a fatwa (religious decision)!Religious leaders in Saudi Arabia oppose plans to stimulate the unity between Islam, Judaism and Christianity, by building a mosque, church and synagogue in public places and printing the Qur’an, Old and New Testament...
Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2006
The author reviews the history of the Azhar University. He argues that the university still exists in the world of knowledge.
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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.