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Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists seek removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the word ‘...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
The crisis over the drafting of Article II of the Constitution continued after representatives of the salafī camp insisted on the addition of the phrase “legislators shall enact laws based on the sources of the four Islamic madhāhib (doctrines)” as precondition for keeping the phrase “principles of...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Christian clergymen said a person’s integrity should be the criteria for any public position, while feminist leaders said the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist parties should not dictate on the president what to do. [Author Not Mentioned, Akhbār al-Yawm, July 7, p. 9] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Dr. Kamīl Sādiq, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Milī (Lay) Council in Alexandria, warned that Egypt is heading towards a similar situation seen in Lebanon in the seventies, with the ignition of sectarian strife between Muslims and Copts moving towards civil war. He accused the present Muslim...
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
The village of Fanūs, Tāmīyah Township of al-Faiyum Governorate, witnessed today a new fitnah tā'ifīyah after mosques in surrounding villages called on their microphones on Muslims to go and help their Muslim brethren in the village of Fanūs, because Christians were "building a church." The...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Salafī al-Nūr Party in the governorate of al-Fayoum precluded a fitnah that almost erupted between a Muslim landlord and a Christian tenant in the town of Sinnūris.
'Abd al-'Azīm 'Abd al-Hamīd and his sons sought last week to terminate the contract of Dāwūd 'Azmī Fahmī and have him out of his...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Salafī al-Nūr Party in the governorate of al-Fayoum precluded a fitnah that almost erupted between a Muslim landlord and a Christian tenant in the town of Sinnūris.
'Abd al-'Azīm 'Abd al-Hamīd and his sons sought last week to terminate the contract of Dāwūd 'Azmī Fahmī and have him out of his...
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2012
The Giza Emergency Supreme State Security Court resumes on Sunday (February 5) hearing witnesses in the Imbābah sectarian incidents in which 48 persons are facing charges of illegal assembly, premeditated murder, attempted murder, sparking and inciting sectarian fitnah and setting fire to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Sectarian fitnah ignited anew on Monday (January 30) in the village of Sharbāt, al-Nahdah district, western Alexandria, where young men attacked several houses and stores owned by Christians, started fire and pelted stones, leaving three stores ablaze
The second conciliatory session, held on...
Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2012
The area of al-'Āmirīyah, west of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, has been the scene of deplorable incidents when Muslims and Christians exchanged fire, leaving three wounded and setting some stores on fire, after a young man saved the images of a young girl on his cell phone and showed...
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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.