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Date of source: Monday, October 12, 2009
‘Alī Sālim comments on Dr. al-Qaradāwī’s fatwá to give illegally obtained money to Palestine.
Date of source: Monday, August 10, 2009
‘Alī Sālim writes about the joke behind Fitnah Tā’ifiyah.
Date of source: Saturday, December 6, 2003 to Friday, December 12, 2003
The Azhar decided to ban Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid´s book “Al-Khetab Wa Al-Ta´weel” [Discourse and Interpretation], allegedly because it challenge two main pillars of Islam: monotheism and the [divine] preservation of the Qur´an. The author comments that this argument indicates accusing Abu Zeid of...
Date of source: Saturday, September 17, 2005 to Friday, September 23, 2005
The author discusses the ever-increasing number of activities and ideas named as harām [religiously impermissible] by extremists and suggests that this is a way in which these extremists attempt to influence and control the people.
Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2005 to Friday, August 19, 2005
French authorities have recently deported two extremist imāms accused of inciting violence, a measure that is politically, socially and legally right in the interests of France, and indeed, Europe.
Date of source: Sunday, August 14, 2005
After experiencing despair and hopelessness for a certain extent of time, the human mind eventually refuses to recover, and indeed seeks even more despair and hopelessness. These kinds of people, who make misery for themselves, can ruin others’ lives so that they can live in peace.
Date of source: Saturday, October 1, 2005 to Friday, October 7, 2005
A revolutionary religious group will never know a thing about political dreams because their ideas are just a collection of hallucinations. The author critiques the Palestinian revolutionary groups.
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
When a website reported that a Chechen leader announced his responsibility for the hostage-taking operation of the students of a Russian school, he was actually introducing a new approach of war in Islam that Muslim scholars were very much opposed to. Taking hostages and making some demands in...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
I wish that you can offer me a contemporarily definition of the word “ Jihad,” that doesn’t contradict with Shari’a and meanwhile, takes the current state of affairs into consideration, so that the Egyptians would lead a better life. There are sheikhs who stir up frictions and add fuel to the fire...
Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 2004
The most important issue in the Islamic world today is the relationship between two basic creeds of Islamic fiqh [jurisprudence]: Sunnis and Shiites. With the long history of discord which can lead to conflict, wise Muslim intellectuals believe that if the two parties were able to come closer to...
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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.