Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

The article presents speeches of a number of Azhar scholars that have been delivered in a symposium on human rights in Islam.

Islam developed rules and ethics that aim to establish the values of tolerance and acceptance of others.

January 7 is the day when Copts, in accordance with the Coptic calendar, celebrate Christmas. The occasion received a significant amount of attention in the Egyptian press that published a considerable number of articles about Coptic issues in general and the Christmas celebrations in particular. The media also highlighted Muslim-Christian solidarity and the friendly relations between the two.

The author reports on news about the arrest of a radical group, which police says it linked al-Qā‘idah combining a ‘sleeping cell’ in Egypt.

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina digitized some of the manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery and included them in the fifth edition of the manuscripts’ digital library.

The following article presents an overview of the Annual Anglican-Al Azhar Interfaith Meeting that implicitly dealt with dialogue and means of furthering it. Wisam al-Deweny provides her input on the subject, and recommends means of improving this dialogue in the future.

In the article, the grand Shaykh, Muhammad Ṭanṭāwī, presents the point of view of Islam regarding the concept of citizenship, and how the Prophet Muhammad has dealt with it after the hijrah to al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah.

The author narrates old events about the conflict between Muslims and Christians.

The author reviews two books about the issue of apostacy which has been discussed extensively. The first book is titled ?Al-Sawa?ek al-elaheya fi al-rad ala al-Wahabiya? [Divine thunders in answering the Wahhābī movement] which is one hundred years old, while the second book is titled “la ikrah fi al-deen” [No compulsion in religion].

Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, the grand

Muftī, writes about the most prolific narrators of hadīth in Islamic history.