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Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2005
Egyptian intellectuals support President Mubārak’s call on youth and preachers to reflect that Islam came for the good of Muslims and the enlightenment of the world.
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2005
Cassette tapes urging jihād, bloodshed and relentlessness have been flooding the Egyptian market lately. They are produced in Saudi Arabia and exported to us via Egyptians coming home from hajj or cumra [lesser pilgrimage].
The objective pursued by these tapes was to give the impression that “we...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2005
The so-called TV preachers are not in fact quite conversant with the Sharī‘a like the preachers of earlier times. Their religious knowledge is limited to a few books and biographies of the Companions of the Prophet. They approach vital issues of the everyday life relying on their communication...
Date of source: Monday, April 12, 2004
Women preachers go onto the metro and say loud do’aa [prayers] and ask women on board to repeat after them. Now, the phenomenon has developed. Now women preachers are giving religious lessons in the metro. • See article 4: Renewal of religious discourse has not been successful for the last 1500...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
The women preachers worked actively last week in the underground carriages to collect signatures of women to support a petition against commercials and video clips in which girls dance in a sensual way.
The woman preachers tell the women that they belong to Al-Amein Institute for Preparing...
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
The phenomenon of the new preachers who were imposed on us as muftis is worthy of thorough examination. We need to know where those preachers received their training and how many accredited books each of them has authored? We need to know whether a preacher is able to give fatwas. Everybody has the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 17, 2005
The Islamic Research Institute decided on the cancellation of permission to religious cassette tapes promoting violence. This decision was taken after finding tapes in which the content was different from what was approved. The non-approved content is believed to have influenced fundamentalists by...
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is about a sheikh [Muslim cleric] who seduces widows and
divorced women and has illicit relationships with many of them.
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Non-stop explanation of the facts of Islam and its tolerant teachings has to be extended to other nations through a line dissociating the faith from the misconducts of some Muslims, said Muhammad ‘Abd al-Fadīl al- Qousī, the deputy president of the Azhar University, in an interview.
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2001 to Friday, January 4, 2002
Terrorism spread by fictitious thoughts. Bookshops and streets are full of books speaking about the torment in the grave. Extremists create imaginary stories to terrorize people and direct their attention away from work and production. Instead of concentrating on work, people keep thinking about...
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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.