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Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2006
The author tackles the relationship between state and religion in Islamic history, noting that religious and political issues in Islamic culture are very complicated and are not clear so far.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Opinions of Islamic scholars on the issue of
misyār marriage, in which the
husband has no financial responsibilities for his wife.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
The Muslim Brotherhood’s demonstrations in support of the independence of the Egyptian judiciary have posed many questions over the group’s respect for the current “positive laws,” Mustafa Bayyoumī writes.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Five
Scandinavian
tourists, including three Norwegians and two Swedes [Reviewer: No names mentioned] have been
accused of blasphemy
on their holiday in Egypt for circumambulating a statue of a mermaid located in a town
square in Hurghada, in an
attempt to parody Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca....
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Islam prescribes death penalty
for murder to alleviate the anguish of the relatives of the murdered person, the grand imām of
the
Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī says, explaining the reasons behind the
harsh
penalties imposed by Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The speech given by Lord Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury, at the opening of the second theological college in Alexandria.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
Mamdouh
Nakhla, head of the Al
-Kalīma Center for Human Rights, is participating with Muhammed al-Dirinī and
‘Aboud al-
Zumour in the authorship of a book entitled "The Hell Capital" about how Christians and
prisoners are treated in
Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
Prince Charles will open
a tent in London next week promoting tolerance and understanding
between religions.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Pamphlets printed in Saudi Arabia appeared hours before the Shamm al-
Nasīm feast in Egypt
calling for preserving the Islamic identity and prohibiting Muslims from
celebrating others’ feasts.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006
A few days ago, news broke that the Egyptian Ministry of Interior had arrested a 22-member terrorist cell, calling itself al-Tā’ifa al-Mansoura [The Victorious Sect], on charges of planning terrorist attacks against a number of tourist sites, gas pipelines on the Greater Cairo ring road, and...
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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.