Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 22, 2006
The last two years witnessed increasing Western attacks on Islam. Muslim reactions, however, in many cases Muslims violent reactions, enforced the negative image of Islam. Nevertheless, some Muslim intellectuals called for peaceful reactions through changing the violent image of Islam by showing...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 11, 2006
More than 100 Muslim scholars and university professors signed a statement, in which they condemned the insults to the prophet’s companions, which were published by al- Ghad newspaper on October 4, 2006. The statement indicated that any attack against the prophet’s companions and wives...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2006
The Shaykh of al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, announced
the launch of al-Azhar’s online library. The new online features come as part of its effort to communicate
to
a larger Muslim audience using the latest information and communication technologies.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 11, 2006
This review deals
with the annual national unity
iftār, an occasion that brings together Muslim and Christian senior
officials and dignitaries
during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadān, as Pope Shenouda III of
Alexandria and Imām
of the Azhar Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī stressed...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 14, 2006 to الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 20, 2006
‘Abd Allāh Kamāl spots the danger threatening
Egypt and other Sunnī countries heading towards converting to Shī‘ah.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 8, 2006
The Administrative Court ruling issued last April in favour of the
right of
Bahā’ī citizens to be acknowledged and to indicate their faith on official documents
divided
public opinion into supporters and opponents, although a same ruling was issued in 1983.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 7, 2006
Muslims and Christians united in their stance
against Pope Benedict’s offensive
statement to Islam and voiced their disapproval during the national unity
banquets held in the month of
Ramadān.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 6, 2006
Al-Wafd newspaper interviews Islamic preacher Khalīd al-
Jindī,
who rejects claims that he is one of a group of modern Islamic preachers because he wears western
dress.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 10, 2006
During Ramadān, representatives of Muslim and Christian
faith
shared the the iftār “table of national unity” together with government
officials.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2006
Salīm
al-‘Awa criticizes the
abilities of the Shaykh of al-Azhar in drawing up
fatwás, since he is not a specialist in Islamic
jurisprudence.