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Date of source: Thursday, December 6, 2012
Cairo Criminal Court decided to refer seven expatriate Copts to the Muftī of the Republic (which means death sentence) for producing a film discrediting Prophet Muhammad
Date of source: Thursday, October 25, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb criticized the West’s constant bias in favor of the Zionist entity, adding the Palestinian issue is the very core of all problems in the region that failure to reach permanent and just solution and establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its...
Date of source: Thursday, September 6, 2012
Minister of Information Salāh 'Abd al-Maqsūd's decision to rehire veiled TV hosts in television programs was welcomed among different segments in society. This decision assures personal rights and Egypt's Islamic identity that the former regime tried to distort.
Date of source: Thursday, September 6, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Najīb 'Awadīn, Secretary-General for the supreme council for Islamic Affairs of al-Liwā' al-Islāmi, said that Political movements adherence to the word “principles of Islamic sharī’ah” rather than “laws of Islamic sharī’ah” is caused by the Supreme Constitutional Court announced...
Date of source: Thursday, June 2, 2011
Dr. Ahmad Mahmūd Karīmah, Jurisprudence Professor in the Azhar, said that a Muslim can marry a woman from the people of the book, and it is allowed for her guardian to decide if this marriage can be 'urfī for a period of time, according to the the general interest.
He added that when a woman...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Dr. Mahmūd 'Azab, Azhar's Grand Shaykh consultant for dialogue and member of the Family House initiative, said that the Family House decided to return to the guidance and advice panel that was halted by the State Security Agency during the former regime.
This panel is formed when anyone expresses a...
Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2011
In an interview conducted with Nājih Ibrāhīm, a senior scholar of the al-Jamā'ah Islāmīyah (Islamic Group), said that Islamists form political parties in search of legitimacy, not power or political gains.
He added that the Islamist movement needs to realize the difference between da'wah (Muslim...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Scholars and legal experts warned from attacking citizens and using violence under the pretext of promoting virtue and preventing vice.
Dr. 'Afāf al-Najār, former Dean of Faculty of Islamic Studies, said, that if these matters were left to the general public then Egypt would soon turn into a jungle...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Religious newspaper al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī reports on a lecture given by British Minister Sayeeda Warsi at Leicester University in which she warned against the continuation of anti-Islamism in Britain.
Warsi alleges that Islamophobia has become common in Britain. She says that classifying Muslims...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
The Grand Imām of the Azhar says that attempts by the West to distort the image of Islam are politically motivated and supported by Zionist media, according to al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī.
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib made his comments to a visiting U.S. delegation from the Council on Foreign Relations.
“There...
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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.