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Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Monday, August 2, 1999
Good news for the Orthodox Church should also be good news for the nation’s leading Islamic institution. After Pope Shenouda announced at a press conference on 23 June that the government had handed over 780 feddans of Coptic religious-endowment (awqaf) land, Al-Azhar asked the government to...
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999
During his meeting with the students of Alexandria University, the Great Imam, Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the sheikh of Al-Azhar, confirmed that Egypt has never known the religious persecution because it is the country of all religions since the first daybreak.
Date of source: Sunday, July 18, 1999
Sheikh Goheiry’s second house in Fatimid Cairo between Muski and Al Muizz street is being threatened according to his descendants and residents of the area.
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 1999
Concerning the case of Abd Al-Sabour Shahin [concerning his book: ’My father Adam’], the report of the Research Institute confirmed that the book is an example of Al-Ta’wil (interpretation and explanation) for some of the verses and the Hadiths. It is true that the author used his imagination to...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 20, 1999
In a series of articles, Mr. Al-Said Ahmed Higazi attacked Dr. Al-Said Farag, a professor in Al-Mansourah University with different claims, but each time he failed to destroy him. His last attempt is that he attacked the government’s decision concerning the "naked models."
Date of source: Friday, July 16, 1999
Recently, scholars of Al-Azhar rejected the call for the Dialogue of Religions. Some scholars believe that these are attempts to defame Islam and Egypt. They also believe that dialogue between religions is a necessity, but they can not interfere in the other religions under the guise of dialogue.
Date of source: Friday, July 16, 1999
Secularism in the West is different from that in the East. The secularists have different principles especially concerning patriotism and national unity. In the East, they despise morals and everything that is represented by it.
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
No religion will gain or lose anything if its followers increase or decrease. This is applied to Islam and this is also applied to other religions. Hence, it was not strange to find Al-Azhar trying to hold up a dialogue between it and the Vatican. They have agreed that dialogue between different...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
Will the next Vatican Pope be black? This question was raised recently because of the bad health conditions of Pope John II. There are a lot of rumors which say that Pope John will resign after the celebration of the beginning of the third millennium due to his old age and his bad health. There...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, sent the American Freedom of Religious Persecution Law to the Islamic Research Institution in order to discuss it and take a decision about it. This law allows the American government to create the function of a traveling ambassador to travel to...
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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.