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Date of source: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Absentee prayers were
performed for the soul of Abou
Mus‘ab al-Zarqāwī in many small Egyptian and Jordanian
mosques. The Muslim Brotherhood
considers him to be a martyr.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 22, 2003
A fatwa issued by the former Mufti of Egypt stipulating that currency trade is haram has caused a juridical debate between Azhar scholars. The Sheikh of the Azhar referred the fatwa to the Islamic Research Institute for examination and comment.
Date of source: Thursday, June 2, 2005
The Afro-Asian Writers Organization, chaired by Dr. Muhammad Majdī Murjān, organized a symposium titled Islam and security facing terrorism and extremism. The symposium was attended by Dr. Mahmoud Hamdī Zaqzouq, Minister of Endowments, a number of African and Asian ambassadors, a group of scholars...
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2002
The new Mufti of Egypt decided to entrust the task of issuing fatwas to the Islamic Research Institute. The author believes this not to be a good decision, as the Institute has charged many intellectuals with kufr [unbelief] and is not known for defending the freedom of opinion. He suggested the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Many literal works that were recommended to be
banned by the Islamic Research Institute, like “Waleemat A’shab Al-Bahr” [Banquet of seaweeds] by
Haidar Haidar, and most recently Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s “Soqout Al-Imam [the Fall of the Imam], are
humble and modest texts from a literary point-of-view...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 2004
“Al-Horriya Al-Deeniya fi Al-Islam” [Religious Freedom in Islam] is the most important book of Sheikh Abdel Mota’al Al-Sa’eedy, a senior sheikh at the Azhar. Sheikh Al-Sa’eedy reached the conclusion that whoever abandons Islam should not be killed. He believes that what has been previously said...
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...
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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.