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Date of source: Tuesday, July 29, 1997
Subtitle:What is going on within the church?The real story about the excommunicated Monk
Danial El-Baramousi, and Monk AghathonWhy didn’t the excommunicated fathers speak about the real
reasons
for their excommunication?El-Watani newspaper examines the reasons for the
excommunication of...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 30, 1997
Dr. Nasr
Hamed Abu Zeid laments having
been forced to leave Egypt for the Netherlands after being accused of
apostasy.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 31, 2006
The al-‘Assāl sons were the sons of a Coptic family who were
interested in science, literature and legislation, and who occupied vital positions in the Islamic era.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with the ideologies of a group of Muslims who call themselves "the Qur’ānites" who believe only in the Qur’ān and deny the sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] altogether.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
Azhar scientists support Egypt’s muftī, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a in the face of criticism from some intellectuals concerning his fatwa banning full-figure statues.
Date of source: Sunday, April 2, 2006
The reasons for the spread of bird flu in Egypt were interpreted by some as either divine wrath or a conspiracy by the developed countries against the third world.
Date of source: Thursday, March 16, 2006
With the escalating conflict in Iraq between the Sunnis and Shi’ites, many Muslim thinkers are urging Muslims to unite behind their belief in God and the Prophet Muhammad.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 17, 2003
A Syrian researcher studying at the Faculty of Dar Al-Ulum, Cairo University, discussed his Ph.D. thesis on May 31. His thesis is titled “The Stand of the Arab Secular Thought Towards the Qur´anic Text.” Dr. Hassan Hanafi and Dr. Muhammad Emara were members of the discussing committee. The...
Date of source: Friday, July 15, 2005
The Misyār marriage is an Islamic marriage that has emerged as life circumstances have changed. Dr. Muhammad al-Mukhtār al-Mahdī, a professor at the Azhar University [discipline not mentioned], says that “linguistically speaking, the Misyār means ’to drop by’.”
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005
The women leading men in prayers; the odd interpretations of al-Nisā’ [Women] chapter of the Qur’ān, regarding the guardianship of the men over women; the desertion and the claim that God, god forbidden, is biasing for men because He is a male, all these controversies that have triggered uproar...
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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.