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Date of source: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Pope Shenouda receives Shaykh al-Jafarī and 50 monks from the Monastery of Saint Macarius who denied the false news that they agreed to support one of them to succeed the pope.
Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2002
Al-Wafd and al-Usboa papers are positive toward the Yemeni Shaykh al-Habib al-Gafri and against the decision to deport him. Sout al-Ummah, however, believes that better than deporting him would be to disclose his deception. al-Musawwar interviews him on the reasons behind his deportation and his...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Rose Al-Yūssif and al-Musawar provided a background of Shaykh al-Ḥabīb al-Jifrī and how he started preaching in Egypt. The reasons for his deportation were unclear, but he claimed he was slandered and defamed. al-Musawar added an interview with him about the ḥijāb. Sawt al-'Umma attributes his...
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
Views of Muslim scholars differ over whether to accept the so-called "apology" of Pope Benedict for the remarks he made about Islam a few weeks ago. Nearly 38 Muslim scholars and leaders sent a letter to the pope to indicate their appreciation of the pope’s expression of regret and his affirmation...
Date of source: Saturday, August 3, 2002
The author believes that sheikhs Amr Khaled and Al-Habib Al-Gafri are among the best young Muslim preachers. He finds it strange that the two sheikhs are criticized because they are said to be behind the retirement of many Egyptian actresses and because they preach people about the life stories of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 14, 2002
The Egyptian security agencies deported the Yemeni sheikh Habib Al-Gafri to Saudi Arabia for violating his conditions of residence. Al-Habib visited Egypt for education. However, he started to give religious lessons, especially after people encouraged him.
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002 to Friday, January 25, 2002
The Yemeni Al-Habib Ali is the last sheikh of artists and businessmen in Egypt. He directs himself to prominent persons in Egypt and other Arab countries and not to the ordinary people. He is the son of the ex-prime minister of South Yemen and he is living in Egypt as a political refugee. The great...
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.