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Date of source: Saturday, December 16, 2000
Disagreements within the Islamist Lawyers’ Front led to the resignation of Montasser Al-Zayyat, its secretary general. Al-Zayyat said that he wrote the resignation last April, but he delayed submitting it until after the date of the elections of the Bar Association was set, fearing that it might be...
3. A campaign against the Mufti because of his fatwa that forbids defending anyone accused of spying
Date of source: Thursday, December 14, 2000
The Mufti issued a fatwa stating that defending a person who is accused of spying is haram [religiously forbidden] and that the one who helps to free such a person is a partner in the sin. The fatwa was met with much resistance. The mother of Sherif Al-Felali, who is accused of spying for Israel...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Many girls declared their wish to work as marriage officials and explained that such a job is not Haram [religiously forbidden]. Scholars in Jordan explain that men are doing the job and there is no need for women in the field. Other scholars do not mind to have women working as marriage officials...
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2000
Religious scholars came to be divided between supporters and opponents to the idea of the nomination of Muslim women in elections and regarding their rights in participating in the political life. The Mufti and sheikh Youssef Al-Badri believe that women’s nature does not allow them to have a role...
Date of source: Sunday, December 10, 2000
The dramatic scene through which the writer gives the pros and the cons to the idea of establishing an Islamic party for the Muslim Brotherhood continued in this article [see RNSAW week 49, article 6]. There are two friends. One of them welcomes having an Islamic party that would work to enforce...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
In previous parliaments, the main focus of the Brotherhood was fighting kissing and hot scenes appearing on television. They demanded a television that would enforce the Shari’a. They also opposed the Emergency Law. This time they will not focus on the matter of enforcing Shari’a but on the issue...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
Through an imaginary dialogue between the author and two of his friends, he gives the pros and cons to the idea of establishing an Islamic party for the Muslim Brotherhood. While one of the friends is of opinion that announcing such a party will push the country two hundred years back in time, the...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
The author criticizes the Sheikh of the Azhar because he spoke highly of the book "Islam and the gardens of the devil" by the editor-in-chief of Rose El-Youssef. He believes that the book contains Western and non-religious ideas. It speaks of Heavenly Religions, as if God has many religions and...
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2000
Religious extremists started campaigning against Rose Al-Youssef because it published a series of taped interviews with them which unleashed their thoughts, methods and goals. Yasser Al-Serri felt cornered after the magazine revealed the unimportance of his role, and how flat his ideas are. Sheikh...
Date of source: Thursday, November 16, 2000
The Moroccan Minister of Waqfs spoke in an interview about the importance of having an international organization for Friday preachers in all the mosques of the world. He added that the dialogue between different Islamic denominations should concentrate on their contents and on finding one scale...
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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.