Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Muhammad Ḥasan said at a seminar in 'Ayn Shams University that Copts do not ever need to seek external help because Egypt is not for Muslims only, but rather for all its people, Muslims and Christians.
He also said that protecting Copts is a Muslim duty. Muslims will be the ones protecting their...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Religious weekly ‘Aqīdatī says in a page one report that it has learned from its sources in the Azhar that the preliminary makeup of the proposed "Family Home," which intends to serve as a joint mouthpiece for the Azhar and the church, includes few Azhar scholars.
Ninety percent of the proposed...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Egyptian news coverage on Tuesday followed the statements of various government officials regarding the possibility of two Copt-related bills: a unified law for building places of worship and a personal affairs law for Christians...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2011
AWR's Hānī Hamdī continues to survey Egyptian newspaper coverage of the Alexandria church bombing. He reports that Tuesday's coverage focused primarily on Coptic protests, which continue in different areas of Egypt some three days after the attack...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Headline: Promotional Campaign for "Ground Zero Mosque"
Source: al-Ahrām
Page: 3
Author: Not mentioned
Keywords: New York City, United States of America
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Headline: We Are Facing the Most Serious Disruption and Fitnah Campaigns, Says Grand Imām
Source: ‘...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Ansār al-Sunnah al-Muḥammadiyyah has apologized for the fatwá that calls for killing of Muhammad al-Barād‘ī, head of National Front for Change. The fatwá was issued by Shaykh Mahmūd ‘Āmir, one of the group's members.
The statement issued by the group calls ‘Āmir's fatwá "abnormal and suspicious,"...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Headline: Jum‘ah: We Did not Issue a Fatwá that Egyptian Divorce Is Invalid Because of Different Pronounciations
Source: Rose al-Yūsuf
Pages: 3
Author: Subhī Mujāhid
Keywords: Fatwá, divorce
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Headline: The Assassination of al-Barād‘ī
Source: Al-Yawm al-Sābi‘
Pages: 4
Author...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Shaykh ‘Alā’ Mādī Abū al-‘Azā’im of the ‘Azmīyah Sūfī method resumes his argument about slander that target Sufism. He derives non-Sūfī quotes by prominent non-Sūfī figures that prove the slanders against Sufism. Amongst those figures are the four imāms whom he considers direct or indirect...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Nine hundred imāms and orators are expected to be assigned by the Ministry of Endowments. Egypt’s Minister of Endowments, Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, stressed the serious and strict measures that are to be applied in the tests.
3500 of this year's graduates of the Azhar religious faculties had applied...
Date of source: Thursday, November 18, 2010
The import control bureau at the Azhar refused requests to release 15,000 copies of a cassette tape telling the story of a former deacon who converted to Islam. The bureau said that it refuses to bring such tapes into Egypt because they could cause a threat to national unity.
Key Words: Azhar