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Date of source: 30 Aug 2003
The issue of friend-marriage has triggered many hot reactions within juristic and social circles, especially as Sheikh Abdel Majid Bin Aziz Al-Zindany, the head of Al-Eyman University in Yemen, who issued this fatwa, proposed it to the council for fatwa and research emphasizing that it is a...
Date of source: 28 Aug 2003
Poet Ahmed Abdel Mo’ti Hegazi stated in an article published in Al-Ahram under the title "Words are traps" that Islamic ruling concerning women do not give Muslim women a status better than that of women in countries that apply total gender equality. He asked for reviewing opinions of old fiqh...
Date of source: 29 Aug 2003
The Azhar University is now examining the strategy of the channel it will establish in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Universities. The Rector of the Azhar University asserted that a great part of the programs of the channel would be allocated for preaching Islam.
Date of source: 31 Aug 2003
The crisis of the Red Sea monastery, which began when the governor of the Red Sea decided to knock down an additional wall constructed by monks in a mountainous, barren area, quickly moved to the websites of expatriate Copts. As usual, the orchestra of strife started its political playing on the...
Date of source: 27 Aug 2003
A partial détente took place in the crisis of the St. Anthony Monastery in the Red Sea district. Last Thursday, General Mustafa Abdel Kader, the Minister of Executive Development met with Bishop Yo’annis, Secretary of Pope Shenouda, in an attempt to relieve the current on going situation with the...
Date of source: 27 Aug 2003
Last week and without strong pretexts, the disputes between the governor of the Red Sea and the monks of the Monastery of St. Anthony escalated. The disputes remained undisclosed all along last month after the governor demanded that the monastery’s abbot would stop the encroachment on the state-...
Date of source: 1 Sep 2003
The article reviews the history of the crisis of Saint Anthony Monastery which began in 1992 when Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni issued a decision ordering the erection of a wall to guarantee that the historic site be adequately protected and preserved for its numerous local and international...
Date of source: 2 Sep 2003
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq affirms that dialogue between different religions could be effective and not a monologue as long as it expresses the main aims, namely, peace and justice. Such step needs a humane attitude to penetrate intolerance and premeditated and false judgment. God could not stand...
Date of source: 30 Aug 2003
The writer reports the successful campaign organized by Arabs and Muslims of American organizations since April. They object to President Bush nominating the writer Daniel Pipes to be a board member of US Institute of Peace. Pipes is known by his strong feelings against Islam and Muslims. Observers...
Date of source: 1 Sep 2003
The largest Islamic community in the US is in Chicago and organizes an intensive course for Muslims in the US to teach them how to respond to questions about Islam especially as inquiries in the teachings of Islam increased after the September 11 attacks.
Date of source: 31 Aug 2003
The Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called upon Christian leaders in the US to intervene in convincing Regene Catholic Secondary School in Ohio to reconsider its decision that prevented a 17-year-old Muslim student of Palestinian origin to have her lessons in school because of wearing...
Date of source: 29 Aug 2003
British police is investigating the murder of Egyptian fundamentalist Ahmed Farouq Abdel-Hamid which took place in London some days ago. They discovered that he was a member of the Jihad group and had close relations with its leader Ayman Al-Zawahri.
Date of source: 1 Sep 2003
Nabil Hilmi Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Zaqaziq together with a group of emigrant Egyptians in Europe plan to sue “all the Jews of the world” for stealing gold before their exodus from Egypt. They are preparing to payback this gold with interest. The author elaborates on the...
Date of source: 30 Aug 2003 to 5 Sep 2003
There has been news on the Internet that the Egyptian Censorship Department on Artistic Works rejected the filming of an American film titled “The Pharaonic Witch” in which the main role is played by actress Sharon Stone. The film is said to contain claims about the Jews being the builders of the...
Date of source: 3 Sep 2003
Hazel Heijer, Editor-in-chief of Eturbo, US, responded to articles in the Egyptian media claiming that Jews want to claim the land they inhabited prior to the Exodus from Egypt [AWR, week 32, art. 24, see also week 33, art. 26-30]
Heijer asked:
What is your view of the alleged Jewish claims? Is it...
Date of source: 27 Aug 2003
The author comments on the term "Zionist Christianity" and how it came to be treated as an accomplished fact. He tries to answer some questions: Can Christianity as a religion meet with Zionism, which is a political movement and with Judaism, as a religion? What is the relation between Christianity...
Date of source: 30 Aug 2003
Egypt is the land that witnessed the creation of Christian monasticism. From Egypt all countries took the Coptic monastic system as a public, ecclesiastic institution which has a very deep and direct impact on Christian life worldwide.
This impact has been on many levels: the purely spiritual...
Date of source: 30 Aug 2003 to 5 Sep 2003
Islam in Egypt has special characteristics, other than extremism. This interview with Dr. Amina Nusire, former dean of the faculty of Islamic studies, will discuss this issue. Q: When Islam entered Egypt, how was it different from other countries? A: Amr Ibn El Ass did not enter Egypt as a...
Date of source: 30 Aug 2003 to 5 Sep 2003
The Coptic era in Egypt started in the first century A.D. Christianity endured in Egypt till this day side by side with Islam. Saint Mark was the messenger "author of the second book in the New Testament" who brought Christianity to the Egyptian people year A.D. 60. As Dr. William Soliman Qilada...
Date of source: 5 Sep 2003
Subtitles:
*The Grand Imam’s words are obligatory to me because he is more knowledgeable than I.
*If I had known that the fatwa would trigger this commotion, I would have not given it.
It never dawned on Sheikh Al-Eish’s that he would be an interesting subject for international news agencies....
Date of source: 3 Sep 2003
The author continues his writings about Islamized terrorism in Egypt focusing on the history of the Muslim Brotherhood. He gives examples on the different demonstrations in which the Muslim Brotherhood participated and how they tended to use violence.
Date of source: 8 Sep 2003
At a time when the nationalist movement and resistance against the British occupiers was at its peak, Ma’moun El Hodeibi, was a boxer and represented Egypt in Romania. When he sits down with the younger generation, he finds nothing with Islamic preaching in his past worth mentioning. In 1965, he...
Date of source: 8 Sep 2003
The author comments on one of the statements which Ma’amoun Al-Hodeibi, the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, gave in the interview which Sout Al-Umma had with him on August 25 [See AWR, week 34, art. 10]. Al-Hodeibi stated that the Islamic Shari’a is to be applied on Muslims only and not on...
Date of source: 8 Sep 2003
The article discusses the problems which the Muslim Brotherhood members of the Bar Association at the top of whom is Seif Al-Islam Hassan Al-Banna cause in the association. The recent problems are related to the Women’s Committee [See AWR week 35 art. 12
Date of source: 5 Sep 2003
Subtitles:
*Minister of Interior to Makram Muhammad Ahmed: We released a thousand members of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya according to realistic, transparent and legal criteria.
*the Gama’a leading members abroad support the initiative to stop violence except Muhammad Shawqi Al-Islambouli who maintains...
Date of source: 5 Sep 2003
Subtitle: Members of the organization traveled to Bangladesh to aid in its fight with Burma.
In important statements to Makram Muhammad Ahmed, Minister of Interior General Habib Al-Adly revealed the full scale of the recent lawsuit of the Jihad group. The [recently arrested] Jihad organization...
Date of source: 8 Sep 2003
In a sarcastic tone the author comments on the issue of renewing the religious discourse. She writes that there is a fierce campaign advocating the change of the religious discourse in Islamic countries. This is to limit terrorism and extremism which according to “Mama America” are the outcome of...
Date of source: 7 Sep 2003
Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi, the head of the European Council for Fatwa [religious opinion or decree given by a Mufti or another Muslim scholar based on Islamic Law and logical measurement], and Research, began the forum held in the Journalists Syndicate by saying that Islam accepts the idea of...
Date of source: 5 Sep 2003
[Editor: The claim that this poet is ’working for the US’ seems to be written with the intention to incite people against him. That explains category 9. See for the description of that category the categories at the end if this issue.]
The author comments on an article by poet A.A.H. [Ahmed Abdel-...
Date of source: 9 Sep 2003
In this article, the author comments on an article written in the past week about a lecture he himself attended. He said that he would shed some light on the points he thought were not important and were not adequately covered in last week’s article which was written by Gamal El Banna. He started...
Date of source: 9 Sep 2003
The writer Gamal Al-Banna gives a brief comment on the presence of Bishop Yohanna Qulta in the conference of renewing the religious discourse which he covered in a previous issue. He writes that he was happy for the participation of Bishop Qulta and that his word in the conference reflected his...
Date of source: 9 Sep 2003
Subtitles:
*Corruption cannot be treated with corruption, a nation that expects the good from terrorists and killers is a nation that is plunging down to hell.
*Those who apologized saying that they knew nothing about collective tombs regained their senses and begin accusing others with kufr and...
Date of source: 4 Sep 2003
Subtitles:
*Those for this viewpoint: We did not invent these viewpoints, you may check the viewpoints of Ibn Tamima, Imam Muhammed Abdu, Sheikh Shaltout and Dr. Emara.
*Those against this viewpoint: They do not understand the viewpoints of Ibn Tamima and seek to embalm the Qur’an
On the pleas of...
Date of source: 7 Sep 2003
Large audiences listened to Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi in Al-Ahli Club in which he held two forums. Although questions on politics were avoided, Qaradawi’s Fatwas [A Muslim religious opinion or decree issued by a Mufti or another Muslim scholar based on Islamic Law and logical measurement.] created a...
Date of source: 4 Sep 2003
The paper comments on the fatwa of Yemeni Sheikh Al-Zandani concerning the new form of marriage he initiated, that is "marriage friend." The author approaches many Muslim religious and psychology scholars to comment on the fatwa. The majority rejects the idea. [See AWR, week 35, art.16]
[Al-Liwa...
Date of source: 9 Sep 2003
The author gives an overview of a book by Islamic intellectual Gamal Al-Banna titled ’Islam is Religion and Nation and not Religion and State."
Al-Banna writes that authority, which is one of the most important components of any state, corrupted the core of beliefs. For example, the European...
Date of source: 9 Sep 2003
Subtitle: The text on which Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin relied in accusing Dr. Nasr is out of context and does not imply the meaning he derived. I am used to writing a brief report about every book I read or take some quotations which I may need in the future. When I was about to write some quotations...
Date of source: 3 Sep 2003
Bishop Yustus, the abbot of St. Antonius Monastery, rejected the suggestion proposed by Bishop Yo’annes, Secretary of Pope Shenouda, to solve the crisis of the monastery. During the meeting he had with the governor of the Red Sea, Bishop Yo’annes suggested establishing a farm following the...
Date of source: 5 Sep 2003
In his weekly lecture, Pope Shenouda praised President Mubarak for his wisdom and equal treatment of the children of Egypt. He elaborated on the role Mubarak played to solve the crisis of the Anba Antonius monastery, praising the committee which the president ordered to be formed to follow up the...
Date of source: 8 Sep 2003
The author believes that some of the monks tried to turn the crisis of the Anba Antonius Monastery into a political conflict. However, Pope Shenouda made it clear that the crisis is fabricated and showed that he is a shrewd politician when he agreed on the solution for the problem. The governor of...
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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.