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Jizya is an issue that needs to be discussed and decided upon by religious scholars once and for all. It is unbelievable in this day and age that some people still advocate taking Jizya from non-Muslims and humiliating them in the process. Fortunately, some prominent scholars have taken the...
Dr. W. Reiss responded to the summary of Dr. Al-Awa’s article on religious textbooks in AWR, 2003, week 52, art. 27
The article is a comment on news reported by both the London-based newspaper of Al-Hayat and Al-Usboa about the offense the Grand Imam directed to Mrs. Jihan Al-Husseini, a journalist at Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, while she was interviewing him.
In his December 22, 2004 sermon at Saint Mark Cathedral in al-‘Abbāsiya, Pope Shenouda III said he went into seclusion in order to serve Copts and help solve their problems.
A Muslim intellectual said that the provisions of Islam regulating the relationship between Muslims and the kitabīs [People of the Book] should not function as a basis to rule that those kitabīs are disbelievers.
Satellite stations have televised demonstrators gathering in front of the Mār Girgis Church in al-Fayyoum. They demanded the handover of the Medicine Faculty graduates, Maryān Makram Girgis and Teresa ‘Ayyād Ibrāhīm, back to the Coptic Orthodox Church. These demonstrations had been spurred by...
The Qur’an says about the kitābis [People of the Book] that “They are not all alike” [The Meaning of The Holy Qur’ān by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall,3:113 ]. I just remembered this Qur’ānic fairness when I read about two court rulings and a political position that recently took the attention of...
Reference to articles in this issue that help to understand Egyptian culture and developments in society.
My article mainly deals with two points raised in the two articles published by my dear friends: Bishop Mousa and counselor al-Bishrī. The first point is regarding Bishop Mousa’s answer to a question he asked and that is whether the Church works in politics. His answer was in the negative,...
Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā, the prominent Islamic thinker and the Secretary General of the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), called for peaceful coexistence and fraternity between Muslims and non-Muslims.

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