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Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Under the headline, “Vatican threatens to transfer dialogue with Islam to Iran” Al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī on page two quotes Cardinal Peter Turkson of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace as saying “no one can prevent the Pope from expressing his opinion,” adding “dialogue with Islam will not...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Azhar Grand Imām Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib says that apostatizing others is a threat to society, according to Rose al-Yūsuf.
“Takfir and rash accusations of iniquity are the most important phenomenon threatening Islamic society,” said al-Tayyib at a meeting for the Sixth World Forum of Azhar graduates...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
On Wednesday, Coptic reaction to the church bombing was once again a primary focus for Egyptian editorialists. This time, much of the coverage focused on statements by some expatriate Coptic organizations and leaders who have called for a Coptic Christian state to be established in Egypt....
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Wednesday's Egyptian newspaper coverage of the Alexandria church bombing focuses on speculation regarding who may be behind the attack. But some are accusing the Egyptian media of competing to identify the responsible party, according to AWR's Hānī Hamdī...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Headline: Research Academy Considers Stiffening Penalty to Three Years in Prison for Any Party that Prints Mushaf [original Qur’ānic text, without exegesis or human explanation] with Mistakes
Source: al-Dustūr
Page: 3
Author: Wā’il Fāyiz
Keywords: Mushaf
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Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Egyptian Islamist thinker Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā insists that Egypt is an Islamic country, saying that people who want to change the second article in the Egyptian consitution are insignificant.
In a meeting of the Egyptian Association for Culture and Dialogue in Rāb‘ah al-‘Adawiyyah, al-‘Awwā...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Headline: Extremist Jews Curse the Prophet Muhammad in Occupied Jerusalem
Source: Al-Dustūr
Pages: 1
Author: Ahmad Sulaymān
Keywords: Muhammad
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Headline: Somalia's Youth Movement and Islamic Party Unite in One Armed Group
Source: Al-Sharq al-Awsat
Pages: 14...
12. Dr Zaqzūq: We will never allow using mosques for political promotion during the coming elections
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 2010
During his meeting with Egyptian university students in Alexandria, Endowments Minister Hamdī Zaqzūq stressed that no political sect is allowed to use mosques for political promotion and that any person who does use mosques for demonstrations will be punished.
Zaqzūq declared that 3,000 mosques are...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 1, 2010
During its monthly meeting, the Islamic Research Academy denounced the U.S. State Department’s report on religious freedom in Egypt, calling it an unwelcome and inappropriate intervention in Egyptian affairs. Azhar Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib said that the Academy will release an official response...
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 2010
The author states that Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, refuses to meet any Jewish rabbis because this means that he accepts the actions of the Israeli government. He says that it is not necessary for the Azhar to obey government attitudes concerning this issue. The author then...
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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.