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Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2004
With that speedy pace in the quest for knowledge and progress and attempts to explore the space, the people in our country are still living in the pre-science age, confiscated, tried or simply wasted for just trying to prove they are capacitated, and so the bodies grow while the mind stays in a...
Date of source: Saturday, September 1, 2001 to Friday, September 7, 2001
A national newspaper published an advertisement to the effect that different religious questions could be answered by Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi and a group of the Azhar sheikhs over the Islamic telephone line. It seems that Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi was chosen to replace Amr Khalid through the Islamic...
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2001
The public opinion in Egypt is politically sick. Religion came to occupy the place of politics. People in charge might think they could distract the youth away from being politically active with religion, and they might imagine that they can use the political slumbers of the youth for their own...
Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2001
The Grand Sheikh of the Azhar was asked whether the scientific interpretation of the Qur’an was against Shari’a. He answered that he did not mind if a scientist studied the Qur’an and found indications of scientific facts but scientific explanation of the Qur’an was not explanation.
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2001
The Copts Daily Digest placed a criticism of an article of Dr. Zaghloul el-Naggar which was published in April. Dr. Al-Naggar wrote in that article that the revealed books before the Qur’an, including the Bible, were all lost or altered. Pastor Ameal Haddad wrote a strongly apologetic response,...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Father Morqos looked at a collection of books that damage national unity and criticize the Bible, claiming it is falsified. He believes anybody who thinks he should praise Islam has to defame Christianity and wonders why.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Pope Shenouda stressed that he had good relationships with the political leadership in Egypt. He advised emigrant Copts to work for keeping the reputation of Egypt, explaining that the Christian leadership there has the ability to understand the situation in Egypt more than any other outside group.
Date of source: Friday, March 9, 2001
The religious television show "Nour Ala Nour" [part of a verse from the Qur’an. Lit: light on light], presented many religious figures, such as, Mahmoud Shaltout and Mohammed Mitwalli Al-Sha’arawi, who was discovered by Ahmed Farrag, the show’s host. Farrag discovered another scholar, namely Prof....
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
TV makes some sheikhs seem holy. Omar Abdel Kafi found himself glorified and then infallible and therefore holy. Whatever he said was believed. Abdel Sabour Shahin deceived lots of people by telling them that depositing their money in Al Rayan (An Islamic bank which couldn’t pay back the depositors...
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
The director of the Markfield Institute for high studies in Britain interprets the verses of the Qur’an using his scientific knowledge about astronomy. He believes that this approach suits Westerners, owing to the fact that their mental references are logic and reason. Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi says...
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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.