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Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006 to Friday, September 29, 2006
The author of this
article reports on changes in Muslims’ attitudes or
behaviour during Ramadān, like girls who usually go
unveiled but wear the veil during this month or the
tendency to see more people reading the
Qur’ān while on their way to work or home.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
In an attempt to quench the uproar over his recent fatwá that appeared
to allow the
killing of Israeli Jews worldwide, Muslim dā‘īyah Shaykh
Safwat
Hijāzī, explains in two interviews with Sawt al-Ummah and al-Wafd that his
fatwá
should only be carried out during wartime.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 15, 2006
A
few days ago Muslim dā‘īyah, Dr. Safwat
Hijāzī, issued a fatwá
urging Muslims to declare war against Israeli civilians worldwide.
The fatwá was severely
condemned by the Azhar, the highest religious institution in the Muslim
world, as incorrect and
terrorist in nature.
Date of source: Saturday, August 5, 2006
The
author states a number of Muslim scholars’
responses to a fatwá issued by Shaykh ‘Abd
Allāh Bin Jabrīn, in which he asks
Sunnī Muslims to stop advocating for the Hizb
Allāh in its war against Israel in Lebanon.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 26, 2006
The authors
criticize the silence of key religious institutions in Egypt over recent events in Lebanon.
Date of source: Friday, July 14, 2006
An Azhar scholar, Dr. Ra’fat ‘Uthmān, denies
Israeli
newspaper Maariv reports that he issued a fatwá on the impermissibility of Palestinian
martyrdom
operations and that such perpetrators would end up in hell.
Date of source: Friday, June 30, 2006
The author reviews the discussions in a symposium hosted by a group of senior Muslim scholars about the fatwas given recently by Hasan al- Turābī which sparked shock waves in the Muslim world as they contradicted firmly-established beliefs about the hijāb and the impermissibility of...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The article praises a court ruling repealing a previous ruling that gave
Egypt’s nearly 1000
Bahā’īs the right to have their faith registered in official documents, with
opinions by
intellectuals that Bahā’ism is not a religion and that the only religions recognized in Egypt
are the
divine...
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2006
The Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry has rejected the use of religious slogans as
trade
marks, but the company Mecca Cola is filing a lawsuit to register its trademark in Egypt
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author discussed the use of DNA to determine paternity,
and Islam’s view on this matter.
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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.