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Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Egyptian churches urged President Muhammad Mursī to respect court rulings, criticizing his recent decision to reinstate the dissolved parliament while Coptic activists slammed it as “aggression on the rule of law and victory of the interests of the president’s group at the expense of the homeland’...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Anger is overwhelming church and women circles after newspaper reports quoted the salafī al-Nūr Party and al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group) as rejecting the appointment of a woman or a Copt as vice president. [Author Not Mentioned, Akhbār al-Yawm, July 7, p. 9] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī on Sunday (July 8) issued a presidential decree reinstating the dissolved parliament which would practice all its powers included in Article 33 of the constitutional declaration dated March 30, 2011. [Ahmad al-Batrīq, Ibrāhīm al-Bahī and Muhammad Fū’ād, al-Ahrām, July 9, p...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2012
The crisis over Article II of an expected Egyptian Constitution is about to be settled as salafī members of the constituent assembly announced their agreement that the principles of Islamic sharī’ah would be the main source of legislation but asked for including an explanation of the word ‘...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party severely slammed Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb for rejecting to provide explanations for the word “principles” in the constitution, urging him to issue a statement indicating why he insists on keeping Article II unchanged. [Hamdī Dabash, ‘Usāmah al-Mahdī,...
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After an earth-shaking scandal by Salafī Member of Parliament Anwar al-Balkīmī, policemen arrested Salafī lawmaker ‘Alī Wanīs in an indecent act with a young girl inside his car on a highway. [Salāh al-Wakīl and Dīnā al-Husaynī, al-Wafd, June 9, p. 1] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, June 7, 2012
Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, the deputy leader of the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah group, said the appointment of a Copt as vice president runs counter to the sharī’ah because a vice president could represent the head of state in many of his powers, adding the president’s faith must be compatible with the state...
Date of source: Friday, May 18, 2012
A senior Salafist preacher said the Islamic sharī’ah must be clearly mentioned in the constitution as the main source of legislation, not just the principles of the sharī’ah as sought by liberals and seculars who only want to empty the sharī’ah of its content. [Muhammad Abū al-‘Aynayn, al-Misrī al-...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the new constitution will of Egypt will add in its second article a phrase granting non-Muslims to have recourse to their own laws in matters of personal status. [Muhammad ‘Abd al-Khāliq, al-Ahrām, May 15, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, May 14, 2012
Copts’ concerns about the growing power of Islamists brought them to back candidates from the former regime like Ahmad Shafīq, the last prime minister in the Husnī Mubārak tenure, and ‘Amr Mūsá, the former minister of foreign affairs and former secretary-general of the Arab League, according to a...
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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.