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Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 2, 2006
The controversial fatwa of the Muftī of the Republic, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a, on the prohibition of full-figure statues has been the subject of heated debate in the Egyptian media recently.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 21, 2006
The author reviews a book by a Muslim physician/intellectual about some ill concepts by Muslims regarding religion and some practices mistakenly taken as religious orders.
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 8, 2003
The article is an overview of a book by Dr. Ahmad Shawky El-Fangary, titled “Islamic issues: the niqab in history, in religion and in sociology.” El-Fangary argues that niqab is not an Islamic legislation
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The author says that Islam has stressed equality between men and women in all rights and duties, including the civil, economic, educational, political and work rights.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2006
Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī blames the backwardness of Muslims on three persons, namely "the extremist Indian writer Abu al-‘Ala al-Mawdudī, the illiterate Bedouin Mufti who spearheads the Wahābī call ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Bin Bāz and Mullah Muhammad ‘Umar who applies his fatwas with whips and guns in...
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 3, 2005 to الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 9, 2005
The author argues that the Qur’ān contains information that has been recently discovered by science.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 5, 2005 to الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 11, 2005
The author argues that the Saudi Wahābīs are using their petrodollars to propagate Islam as a religion of violence and extremism, and not one of science, modern technology and innovation.
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Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī argues that the application of the hudoud [Islamic penal code] must be proceeded by social reform, and that its application has only led to great suffering.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 22, 2005 to الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2005
Khomeini’s Iran, the Taliban’s Afghanistan, Nimeiri’s Sudan and several other countries have claimed to be ruled according to Islam. Yet such ’Islamic’ rule merely led to backwardness and oppression. The elite in Egypt are terrified by the idea that a theocracy Egypt would bring a whirlpool of...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 15, 2005 to الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 21, 2005
Dr. Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī argues that Islam does not impose the niqāb on women.
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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.