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Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The author says that Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz was sued for adding to the list of God’s Fairest Names. He added that the lawyer also demanded the separation of Mahfouz from his wife, like the case of Islamic thinker Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd.
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2006
A supplement by independent newspaper Sawt al-Umma, January 30, 2006, reviewed three prohibited books. The first two books dealt with thorny issues in Islam and Christianity while the third one discussed sexual intercourse in very obscene details.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Khālid Bura‘ī presents a list of banned books in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Nabīl Zakī believes that Egypt is now at a crossroads between a religious and a civil state.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
The Azhar is imposing bans on books in Arabic and in English claiming that they contradict Islamic principles.
Date of source: Thursday, November 17, 2005
Head of the publishing department at the AUC, Nabīla ‘Aql, argues that the grand imām of the Azhar did not read the book he banned, Wahhabi Islam... From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad by American writer, Natana De Long-Bas, prior to issuing the ban.
Date of source: Thursday, November 10, 2005
A few days ago, the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī issued a decision barring 15,000 American books from the American University in Cairo.
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
The AUC has called on Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, to back down on the decision to ban a book on Wahābī Islam in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
The Azhar has decided to ban a book on Islam taught at the American University in Cairo. The book, entitled "Wahabist Islam” is considered an attack Islam, contesting the validity of the Holy Qur’ān.
Date of source: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Radical Islamists have not only settled for censorship in their fight against intellectuals, but have issued fatwas, sentencing to death thinkers with whom they disagree. Intellectuals across the Muslim world have been attacked or assassinated in accordance with these fatwas.
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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.