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Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Unfortunately, the cause of fitnah, whose impact and consequences we suffer from until now, is that one party denies Islam, and the other believes in and defends it. The fact is that everyone belongs to this country, but we object that one national group has the upper hand over everything and...
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Jābir ‘Asfūr wrote an opinion piece in al-Ahrām calling for the rooting of the concept of a civil state. He continues that Egyptian intellectuals resorted to the civil state after seeing what the political Islam groups have done in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
Date of source: Monday, September 5, 2011
I remember the early drafts of the Azhar document was stressing, inter alia, a civil, democratic and modern state that is based on rotation of power and multi-party system, which is something I think has been established in the largest Sunni Muslim institution's enlightened heritage.
Date of source: Monday, May 23, 2011
This is the first time the Azhar Grand Shaykh has summoned a group of intellectuals from the civil society, represented in many Coptic intellectuals, but not because they are Copts but because they are Egyptians.
At the beginning of the meeting all the attendants agreed on a civil state, threatened...
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2010
According to the author, reality does not show that Egypt is a civil state as it ought to be. He bases his argument on the presence of the second article of the Constitution, which stipulates that Islamic sharī'ah is the major source of legislation.
The author compares this article with article...
Date of source: Monday, January 1, 2007
The Ḥijāb is not an obligation in Islām, and it is dangerous to easily classify certain concepts under the known and proven. Islām needs innovating scholars who are able to bring it up to date while maintaining the sense of Sharī‘ah, depending on the reasonable interpretation of the Qur’ān and the...
Date of source: Monday, September 15, 2003
The author comments on the reasons why renewing the religious discourse is needed and who are the persons to renew it. He also comments on the importance of renewing the religious, political and social discourses in order to be able to renew the cultural discourse.
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.