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Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2010
The author highlights the importance of dialogue in the society.
Ikrām Lam'ī believes that the most challenging issue in the religious ideology now is the one of dialogue with others of different faiths.
He states that dialogue cannot be achieved through conferences, speeches and articles, but it...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 2010
The author concentrates on the importance of religious thought as it should cope with the challenges of the age.
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Lam‘ī reports on the current Muslim-Christian relations and how they can be re-activated.
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2010
This article reviews the history of Coptic political participation in Egypt. After stating that the period of the Ottoman Caliphate was "among the worst historical periods for Egypt's Copts," Lam‘ī comments that subsequent Coptic political history can be divided into four epochs.
These are the "...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 2010
Ikrām Lam‘ī states that Jesus Christ’s instructions should not be manipulated in order to impose laws. Lam‘ī illustrates that Jesus did not impose laws as some people contend, but instead brought spiritual and humanistic principles that can be translated into rules, which could be followed...
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2010
Ikrām Lam‘ī refers to the recent Sayyidat al-Najāh massacre in his discussion about terrorism and how it has grown to exceed the limits of accomplishing good in the name of religion. He asks whether terrorists actually believe that what they do is an act of religious belief. He claims that Israeli...
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 2010
Lam‘ī says that Hizb Allāh leader Hasan Nasr Allāh is both a curse and a blessing for Lebanon because he represents both the resistance against Israel, as well as a defect in the Lebanese government by his group’s mere existence. He talks about the allegations of Hizb Allāh being involved in Rafīq...
Date of source: Monday, October 11, 2010
Lam‘ī says the joint statement issued by Pope Shenouda III and the Grand Shaykh is more like a tranquilizer than medicine and shows that there is neither tension between the leaders of both religions or the people. He added that Al-fitnah al-tā’ifīyah between Muslims and Copts can only be cured by...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2010
Lam‘ī points out that even though Muslims began their "visit" to Egypt 1500 years ago, Christians began theirs 2000 years ago with the Roman invasion. He added that Muslims "visited" Coptic Egypt such a long time ago that we are all the offspring of the interbreeding of the two and many other...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 2010
This article gives a brief chronicle of the history and formation of the Christian churches.
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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.