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Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2001
Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi expressed the opinion that giving fatwas to Muslims, regarding their personal and general affairs is not limited to the Mufti and that all scholars share this with him. The Mufti believes that all Muslim scholars are allowed to give fatwas, but there are guidelines. He said...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services, the Azhar and the Ministry of Islamic Endowments arrange a Christian-Muslim conference. It was agreed in the opening session that Egypt is a lenient country whose Christians were never a racial minority as claimed by American reports.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 20, 2001
The Higher Council or Culture published a translated book titled "Women and sexism in Islam," by Laila Ahmed. Sheikh Abdel-Azim Al-Matani wants the book banned along with another book about the early years in the life of Mohammed. Farouq Hosni, Minister of Culture, defended publication of these...
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2001 to Friday, June 22, 2001
Some foreign countries are still using the Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim case to nail Egyptian democracy, freedom, and the honesty of the justice system by saying the case was not based on the criminal acts carried out by the Ibn Khaldoun Center. Professor Mustafa Al-Shaka said it was the espionage of...
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2001
The Islamic Research Institute banned a collection of books containing ideas harmful to heavenly religions. Among these books was one titled "Say Baba and miracles of heavenly love." The author Dr. Abdel-Fattah Mohsin Badawi tells the story of Say Baba, an Indian Muslim Sufi. The author does not...
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2001
The production company claims the film is approved by the Azhar. The paper interviewed scriptwriters, directors, actors, and cartoonists on whether it was allowable to talk about Mohammed through a cartoon and whether the American production team were the most knowledgeable to produce such a film....
Date of source: Thursday, May 31, 2001
Islamists are willing to present an accusation to the court to confiscate the book " The formation period in the life of Mohammed " and to have the writer and the publisher investigated on a charge of " scorning religion. The writer of the book said that the book was qualified by historical...
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
The author is of the opinion that some scientific facts could be diminished by popular ideas disguised by religion one time, and ethics or politics at other times. The ex-President of Cairo University and ex-Minister of Health, testified before the Islamic Research Institute that it was very...
Date of source: Friday, May 18, 2001
The author wrote an article in which he blamed the Sheikh of the Azhar and complained about his reaction to those opposing him. A comment on his article was said to be written by the General Secretary of Islamic Research Institute. What amazes the author is that when he blamed the Sheikh of the...
Date of source: Friday, May 4, 2001
The Ibn Khaldoun Center issued some booklets about the religious curricula taught at the pre-university stages of education. The Center put some Coptic names among the names of those who participated in writing these booklets. A member of the Islamic Research Institute said that the issue was not...
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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.