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Date of source: Friday, April 6, 2001
The Islamic Research Institute rejected Prof. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi’s fatwa that allows a woman to host a zygote of a couple not capable of having children. Many scholars regard the host mother to be an adulteress.
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2001
The article explains how religious freedom is a basis of Islamic Shari’a [law]. It mentions many Quranic verse which show that that there is no compulsion in Islam, which is based on a principle of disregarding every saying or action coming through forcing or the like.
Date of source: Friday, March 9, 2001
Britain finished preparing a new Anti-Terrorism Law. Although the law was not approved by the House of Commons, it was enforced when security at Heathrow Airport took three fundamentalists into custody. The new law aims to stop the raising of funds and supporting of extremist groups, based in...
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2001
The Grand Imam received an official delegation of the Protestant Churches of France and Switzerland. He stressed that the Azhar welcomed dialogue and discussion, for they were the languages of the sane and the only way for two groups to get to know one another.
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2001
The Azhar Permanent Committee for Inter-Religious Dialogue and the Pontifical Dialogue Council of the Vatican are to meet tomorrow at the headquarter of the Azhar. The subject on the agenda of the meeting will be the Israeli assaults on Palestinians and on Islamic and Christian holy sites in the...
Date of source: Friday, February 16, 2001
The Grand Imam held a meeting with the heads of the Protestant churches of France and Switzerland. During this meeting, he said that all heavenly religions call for inter religious dialogue among their followers. The delegation of churches confirmed that dialogue between religions is an effective...
Date of source: Friday, February 9, 2001
The author believes that faith cannot be the product of compulsion. It is unimaginable that any heavenly religion, Judaism, Christianity or Islam, can be founded on compulsion to join it. These three religions accepted and approved the religions that came before them: Judaism tells stories of the...
Date of source: Friday, February 2, 2001
The Grand Sheikh of the Azhar said that meetings between Muslims and Christians always serve justice by supporting victims of injustice, especially as all heavenly religions call for cooperation, justice and virtue. He said this during his meeting with Gregorios Laham, the Catholic Patriarch of...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
The Grand Sheikh of the Azhar received the American under-secretary of state and head of the International Office of Religious Freedom in the United States. He explained that the thousand-year-old Azhar is based on moderation and investigating the true religious issues and calls for the spreading...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
When Muslims conquered Egypt, they realized that the most dangerous issue in Egypt during the Byzantine rule was religion and interference in the Egyptian’s faith. Muslim politicians started to establish the principle declared by the Qur’an that is there is no compulsion in religion. The result was...
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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.