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Date of source: Thursday, June 26, 2014
After having temporarily calmed down, relations between the Ministry of Endowments and the Salafīs have ignited once again, this time regarding i’itikāf. Sheikh Muhamad ‘abd el-Rāzik, representative of the Ministry of Endowments for Quranic and Mosque matters, stated, “i’itikaaf is a tradition that...
Date of source: Saturday, March 15, 2014
Al- Da’wah al- Salafiya has denounced the fatwá of Shaykh Muhammad Abd al- Maqsūd (possibly affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood) calling for burning police cars and attacking policemen’s houses.
Date of source: Saturday, June 9, 2012
Officer Ahmad Bahā’ al-Dīn of al-Qalyubia Security Department suspected a car parked in a dark spot, 50 meters away from al-‘Abd Mall in the city of Tūkh, on the agricultural highway, at 08:00 pm on Thursday (June 7).
It turned out that the car was boarded by Salafī legislator ‘Alī Wanīs of al-Nūr...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The Ministry of Endowments has decided to ban three of the Salafī Call preachers from preaching in mosques. These include preachers Shaykh Abū Isaac Al Huwaynī, Shaykh Muhamad Hassān and Shaykh Muhammad Hussayn Ya’qūb. The ministry decided that they should get a license before giving sermons. This...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The Ministry of Endowments has decided to ban three of the Salafī Call preachers from preaching in mosques. These include preachers Shaykh Abū Isaac Al Huwaynī, Shaykh Muhamad Hassān and Shaykh Muhammad Hussayn Ya’qūb. The ministry decided that they should get a license before giving sermons. This...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Spokesman of President Mursī, Dr. Yāsir ꞌAlī, yesterday commented on statements delivered by President Mursī on Egyptian Christians describing them as “minorities”. Accusing media of delivering false reports, ꞌAlī argued that media have taken President Mursī’s statements out of context and that the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2017
The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights expressed its deep displeasure from the position of the salafīs’ negative position regarding the appointment of a women as Governor, whereby they used religion to affect the feelings of the simple [poor, undereducated] sectors of the Egyptian population...
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2017
The political middleman, the Salafī, is worse than the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. They are swallowing up Egypt now, they control the villages, and the hungry, and the popular neighborhoods by their manipulation of the difficult economic circumstances, and by using Saudi Arabian money.
Date of source: Thursday, January 12, 2017
The Coptic Street [community] witnessed several events during the past week… We follow the most prominent of them in the proceeding article.
Date of source: Friday, October 12, 2012
U.S. ambassador in Cairo Anne Patterson met on Wednesday (October 10) with Coptic activists who spoke to her about the status of religious minorities in Egypt under President Muhammad Mursī, a few days after her meeting with Egyptian Shiite leaders who told her they applied for the Dutch...
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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.