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19. "Between Islam and the West" by Rodenson
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 4, 2000
Canaan for Studies and Publications, in Damascus, published a book entitled "Between Islam and the West" by Maxim Rodenson. The book gives scientific and interesting answers for many questions about the reasons that caused Rodenson as a young Jewish man to become a very distinguished specialist in...
8. Maxim Rodinson and his book "Attractiveness of Islam"
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 21, 2000
Rodinson’s book is a project for the joint understanding of Arab academics concerning building a scientific program for Islamic studies. He begins his study by asking many questions, some of which are ’How can we plan for the future of studies of dialogue concerning the Islamic world? What...
46. The Prophet comes under fire in Egypt
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 5, 1999 to الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 11, 1999
Outraged Lebanese students held a sit-in in Beirut on July 20 to protest Egypt’s banning of the classic book "The Prophet" by the late Lebanese-American author Gibran Khalil Gibran. One week later, AFP reported (erroneously according to the Office of the Censor) that information Minister Safwat...
18. Jibran Khalil Jibran’s "The Prophet": Confiscation of a book which Egyptians have been reading for 70 years
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 27, 1999 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 2, 1999
Last week the Censorship Committee on material printed from outside Egypt banned the entry of the English version of the book "Al-Nabi" [The Prophet] written by Jibran Khalil Jibran. Authorities at the American University in Cairo told the French News Agency that it was the last in a series of 70...
20. Morality cops in the classroom: AUC’s censorship dilemma prompts hard-line state response
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 18, 1999 to الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 31, 1999
Last May [1998], students in an American University in Cairo (AUC) course on Muslim politics complained about Maxime Rodinson’s biography "Muhammad". In less than 24 hours after a columnist decried its teaching as blasphemous, Ministry of Higher Education Minister Mufeed Shehab ordered the...
21. Book controversy strikes at AUC
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 28, 1999 to السبت, آذار (مارس) 6, 1999
The December 17 summons of Professor Samia Mehrez by the American University in Cairo (AUC) administration to explain her choice of a book containing "obscene" passages has mushroomed into something far bigger than anyone originally involved expected. This issue follows the controversy over Maxine...
7. The dialogue between Muslims and Copts is for the common good, not about doctrine
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 16, 1998
Members of founding committee of the International Islamic Council for Daawa and Aid ask for a united position against the Israeli Judaization of Jerusalem and the American Freedom from Religious Persecution Act.
12. Freedom of faith and the forgiveness of Islam
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 15, 1998
The professor who taught the book of Rodinson at the AUC was not expelled because Islam is tolerant.
1. The price of development
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 1998
Montasir continues his critique of the French teacher who assigned Rodinson’s book for students at AUC.
9. Rodinson’s book should not have been banned
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 1998
Dr. Christian van Nispen criticized the ban of the Minister of Education to teach the book of Maxime Rodinson’s book Muhammad at the American University in Cairo after Salah Montassir criticized it in Al-Ahram of May 13, 1998. Salah Montassir believed the book constituted an attack on Islam but van...

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