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Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2013
The author of this piece speculates about what he believes to be the true causes for Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, and ventures that he might be more influential than the ideas of Martin Luther, the 16th century Christian reformer. The author compares the health of the outgoing Pope to previous...
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2013
Shaykh Abū Islām has attempted to distance himself from his inflammatory comments about Coptic women. However, the prosecution sent the CDs, provided by Najīb Jubrā’īl, the lawyer, that prove Abū Islām's incitement of a fitnah and disturbance of national unity, to be transcribed by the Ministry of...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Members at the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy has rejected a Finance-Ministry-proposed bill sectioning the introduction of Islamic financial bonds.
Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2017
The Egyptian National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) announced the replacement of the fatwā kiosks, one of which was located at Cairo’s main metro station of al-Shuhadāʾ, with art exhibitions, according to sources quoting Egyptian Minister of Transport.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Researcher Islām Biḥayrī described discussions about reconciliation with the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood as “the crisis of all crises,” from which Egypt and the surrounding region would not recover again. In a long interview with al-Dustūr, Biḥayrī said: the Brotherhood got a proper chance to...
Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2017
A delegation from Al-Azhar visited the village of al-Muhayidāt, south of Luxor, on Sunday, led by Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayib, Shaykh of al-Azhar, and in coordination with the Islamic Research Academy in Luxor.
Date of source: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb held an extraordinary meeting of the Islamic Research Academy on Wednesday (February 1) to form a committee that is to select members of the Senior Scholars Panel.
Informed sources told al-Shurūq al-Jadīd newspaper that according to approved selection...
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb congratulated members of the Azhar's Islamic Research Academy on the enactment of the new law regulating the top Sunni Muslim establishment's affairs, known in the media as the Azhar independence law, issued hours before the People's Assembly session...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
On the other hand, a number of Azhar scholars and leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church vehemently rejected images showing U.S. soldiers urinating over the dead bodies of the Afghan Taliban Movement fighters, describing the act as "ugly, barbaric and violating respect for humans".
Muhammad Ra'fat '...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2016
The Eminence of the Grand Imam Dr. Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭayib, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, visited the Cathedral of St. Mark in Al- ʿAbassiyyah yesterday to congratulate Pope Tawadros II and the Coptic brothers on the occasion of the Easter Feast. The Grand Imam was received by His Holiness Pope Tawadros II...
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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.