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Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2001
Ahmed Omar Hashim, the Rector of the Azhar University faces serious accusations. According to the head of the board members of the Sup Muslim Youth Association in Cairo, the least serious accusation facing him is hiring a group of criminals to take possession of supplies and equipments belonging...
Date of source: Friday, December 29, 2000
In a meeting of Islamic intellectuals, the Minister of Awqaf said that worshipping is more than the performance of religious rites. The Mufti promoted the idea of a Common Arabic and Islamic Market. He declared that importing any commodity that has an alternative in our Islamic and Arabic markets...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zafzaf, the head of the Inter-Religious Dialogue Committee of the Azhar received the delegation of the Austrian Committee of Permanent Dialogue. The delegation asked many questions about women’s rights in Islam, especially that of Christian women who were divorced from their Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2000
S. M. Al-Homosani wrote Aqidaty he converted to Islam a year ago. When his family found out they threatened to kill him and forced him to sign a written confession that he has left Islam and returned. He asks if he is considered an apostate because he signed that confession, although deep in his...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 3, 2000
A Muslim woman, who is married to a non-Muslim and had a baby by him, wrote to Aqidati to ask about the Islamic judgment on her marriage. The secretary of the Fatwa [religious decree given by a Muslim scholar, a Mufti] Committee in the Azhar wrote in reply: "All the scholars of Islam have agreed...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 6, 1999
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar has issued a decision to transfer all the administrative employees of the Fatwa committee in Al-Azhar to other works. He also ordered the reformation of the Fatwa committee according to the article 1150 issued in 1997. He also decided to hire Sheikh Tosoun Ibrahim...
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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.