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Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
"The West, its politicians and missionaries regard the Islamic world as one entity and, in dealing with Muslims, do not forget that they make up one social unit. But in the meantime, the West does not want us to feel united." Thus wrote Islamic scholar Tarek El-Bishri in the introduction to Ummati...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Ahmed Sobhi Mansour clarifying his relationship with a certain Rashaad Khalifa, a Muslim in the US who claims to be a prophet. He insists that he resisted him when he claimed to be a prophet and was able to return home from the US (he had been there at Rashaad’s invitation) only with the help of a...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 1999
The 11th International Conference for the Higher Islamic Council (HIC) will start today in Cairo. The four-day international event "Towards a Renaissance Project for the Islamic World" is held under the auspices of President Hosni Mubarak. According to the Egyptian Minister of Waqfs who is also HIC...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Sixty-nine Islamic countries and six Islamic organizations will take part in the 11th Islamic conference scheduled to open on Tuesday [June 22, 1999]. Addressing a news conference at the headquarters of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Hamdi Zaqzouq, minister of Al-Awqaf (religious...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
A series of educational books recently published by the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development have raised some eyebrows and triggered a crisis in the Ministry of Education, among religious scholars and more recently [have] drawn angry protests from the People’s Assembly.
Date of source: Saturday, June 5, 1999 to Friday, June 11, 1999
Rose el-Yousef published the text of an advertisement in the Washington Times of May 25 claiming Christian girls in Egypt are kidnapped, raped and forced to convert to Islam. They conclude the translation with one paragraph saying the claims are not true.
Date of source: Friday, June 4, 1999
[Note: The same news was published in all Egyptian newspapers of that day.]
On the morning of June 3, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak received the Grand Imam Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi the Sheikh Al-Azhar, and 19 prominent muslim clerics at the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis yesterday morning...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
The unprecedented rise in the number of Urfi marriages among university students has prompted the Islamic Research Academy to condemn the practice as illegitimate. However, if all Urfi marriages become illegal (haram) as stipulated in the statement made by the IRA, this could block one of the most...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 25, 1999
The Grand Sheikh recently clashed with those more politically minded when he refused to lead a prayer for the martyrs of Kosovo. Explaining that it was unlawful according the Muslim Shari’a, he suggested that those who wished to pray for martyrs do so at home or at mosques affiliated to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 18, 1999
Clearly expressing his views about three Muslim sects, a sheikh from Al-Azhar is accused of speaking irreverently of them. Angry reactions from the followers of these sects range from calling for apologies to the taking his life ’as the only decent reply to his disrespect of their beliefs.
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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.