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Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 9, 2008
Umaymah Ibrāhīm reports on the deteriorating social and financial conditions of imāms of mosques in Egypt.
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 1, 2006
Some people consider themselves as da‘iyas, although they are neither scholars of Qur’ān and Hadīth nor graduates of the Azhar. Such people are also being hosted on religion programs, on which they spread strange fatwas.
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2006
Some Azhar clerics react to the issue of disputed child custody between a
Christian mother and her husband who converted to Islam.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 8, 2003
The Mufti of Egypt issued a fatwa to the effect that wives are entitled to be paid for breast-feeding their children and serving their husbands. The author believes it is not acceptable that Muslim scholars neglect essential and important issues and focus on issues of secondary importance that do...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 28, 2002
Christian actress Hala Sidqi raised a khul´a case against her husband after changing her religious denomination. A Christian lawyer said that according to the law of the canonical courts, the marriage contract is considered to be invalid if the husband or the wife changes his/her denomination...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2004
Dr. Hamdy Zaqzouq, Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments], has lately issued a list including thirty-four scholars and men of religion who are allowed to appear in the Egyptian television channels. This list includes senior trustable scholars and thinkers, yet some questions remains. What is the...
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.